Selected by David Rooney, the author, most recently, of “The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and ...

Spielberg's contemporary spin on H. G. Wells would be up there with his best if only he could have nailed the ending.

THESE days, it seems every celebrity wants to put their name to a book club: among the rich and famous, they are as common as ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

WHEN The Wanted singer Max George woke up from life-saving heart surgery, his girlfriend Maisie Smith was at his ­bedside.

FLASHBACKS: Arriving four years after the attack on the Twin Towers, Spielberg’s loose adaptation of the HG Wells classic – ...

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

Twenty years ago this week, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds opened in British cinemas, offering us a big-budget replay ...

The rags to riches star did have a genuine affection for Essex, in particular for the Southend seaside which had given him so much pleasure as a boy ...

Ira Wells has been elected as president of PEN Canada. Wells is a critic, essayist, professor of literature, and author of ...