STAR-BEGOTTEN—H. G. Wells—Viking ($1.75). Every man, it is said, has one good book in him. But many a professional writer distributes his first-rate potentialities over a series of ...

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

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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 ...

So it makes perfect sense that we’re now going one step further with Cosmo Reads, a brand-new imprint in partnership with ...

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Celebrating Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and a century of literature and journalism at The New Yorker.

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