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Veteran cartoonist Jules Feiffer has just written his first graphic novel, the noirish Kill My Mother. Reviewer Alan Cheuse is discovering graphic novels equally late, but still finds it a good read.

Nevada gaming officials are mulling a proposal that would allow gambling on the Olympic Games. If approved at a hearing this month, gamblers could start placing bets on the Summer Olympics in 2016.

Adam Sandler and Netflix are doing four original movies together — perhaps because you can't build a network on prestigious, binge-watchable television series alone.

There are no winners in Joseph O'Neill's new novel The Dog, just a long downward spiral into stalemate as the nameless narrator flees a bad breakup and gets mired in shady financial dealings in Dubai.

A long-awaited review of public libraries in the U.K. calls for them to expand digital services and offer a "retail-standard environment" akin to coffee shops.

British voters will decide in June whether to leave the European Union. In Hastings, one of the closest points to the continent, half the locals think the U.K. would be better off outside the EU.

Things are not what they seem in Paul Tremblay's new novel; a simple search for a missing child becomes a dizzying emotional vortex as ominous new details and old tragedies surface.

A cleverly constructed but narratively sluggish mockumentary exposes a NASA conspiracy to stage Man's first steps on the moon.

State regulators wrapped up a two-day public hearing in Raleigh Tuesday afternoon on the proposed merger of Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas. The…

Charles laid claim to the center of American popular music on these 1962 classics, and ended up with some of the brashest and best-selling music of his career.

A DEA official said the indictments are meant to send "shock waves" through the pharmaceutical industry to remind it of its responsibility to help control prescription medications.

The Duchess of Sussex stepped out of her car Tuesday evening after the the door was opened for her, and then shut it herself, shocking some Twitter users.

The guitarist joined Motörhead in 1976, providing singularly sleek-but-gritty guitar work and helping make it a household name.

The film "Wonder Woman" took in over $100 million at the box office in its first weekend, the biggest opening ever for a female director.

Deepwater Horizon is the tense and terse story of the Gulf oil rig explosion that became the biggest man-made ecological disaster in history.

A man accused of bringing a knife into a west Charlotte charter school was arrested and taken into custody Wednesday morning.Media outlets report CMPD…

While readers may not share Edmund de Waal's obsession with the precious clay (at one point, he crafts an exhibition of 2,455 white-glazed porcelain vessels), his writing makes the subject seductive.

An African tour will include a stop in Tanzania, but not in neighboring Kenya, the homeland of President Obama's late father. The administration says it isn't the right time for a visit, since Kenya's new president is accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.

Also: Sony wins lawsuit brought by owners of Faulkner's works; Kevin Maher on James Joyce's Dubliners.

Also: Dave Eggers responds to allegations that he lifted another writer's work; Jim Crace on the new rules for the Man Booker prize; the problem of depicting female beauty in novels.