Re-reading Ian McEwan’s Atonement last weekend, my first thought was: I hope to God that Joe Wright — whose broadly grinning Pride & Prejudice made a mess of Jane Austen two years ago — doesn’t screw ...

President Obama is no lip-biting, tear-streaking, chin-trembling apologist. When he said he was sorry for the health care mess-up in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, he performed the mea culpa as ...

What, there is no Santa Claus?! That was 2025 for me. A rude awakening by a child that there is no benevolent, kind, jolly adult who loves and rewards us for being good the past year. Until a year ago ...