By Jason Zinoman The stand-up of Tony Hinchcliffe, a popular insult comic, became an immediate issue in the presidential campaign on...

By Maya Salam The October ritual of watching horror movies in the lead-up to Halloween can be exhilarating. Unless, of course, you can’t...

By Harold Goldberg You’re utterly alone. Blood drips onto snow. A fanged entity slashes your significant other. A monstrous chase ends in...

By Sarah Lyall Brian Cleary, a clinical pharmacist in Dublin, was trawling through the archives at the National Library of Ireland a few...

By Jim Farber Phil Lesh, whose expansive approach to the bass as a charter member of the Grateful Dead made him one of the first...

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By Alexis Soloski About a decade ago, writer-director Alfonso Cuarón was sent an advance copy of Renée Knight’s book “Disclaimer,” a...

By The Star Staff In the year 2000, then-U.S. District Judge Jaime Pieras issued a ruling, which later would be overturned, stating that...