Homemade Lemon Cake

Pixar's latest is classic animated material, sugary sweet and almost no surprises, and I was surprised to see it nominated in the Featu...

This was long listed for the National Book Award and while I do not 100% read that list, I do pay attention to it. I think if I had read t...

I was able to watch this on a recent flight with an excellent in flight screen, and while I am not a fan of the horror genre, this was very...

This is a love letter to Palestinian food and the Palestinian people-- the author, who I first discovered when he co-authored a book with Y...

No matter how you feel about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, this rendition of an all too familiar story is a triumph. Somehow Guillermo ...

This book, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025, is a quiet book looking at inner life. It is a compact story that depicts two days in t...

This is a familiar story with an inevitable tragedy, this one told almost exclusively through police body cameras. In 2022, a white woman ...

This is one of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club choices and I am in the midst of slowly reading all of those, which is a fun endeavor. It...

I read in a review of this sumptuous animated movie--which is nominated for an Oascar--is based on the autobiographical novel by artist Amé...

This is a detailed review of the 1960's through the eyes and experience of the author and her husband, who recently died. Let me star...