"Mrs." It's an honorific that's all over CBS' new show The Good Wife, and it's a sign of how much of a woman's identity is bound up in that one little word-how much security and yet vulnerability ...

Subtitled "European Sacred Music of the Renaissance and Baroque Era," this 20-song collection combines the talents of an exemplary 31-voice choir (the Cambridge Singers), an exemplary early-music ...

Lauren Weber's engaging survey of America's ambivalent relationship to thrift both entertains and provides food for thought. Her broad sweep takes in Benjamin Franklin, Booker T. Washington, world...

John Keats wrote two things that never seem to work out when taken together: that a thing of beauty was a joy forever, never passing into nothingness; and that he feared he'd never see his love ag...

It's not a good sign when, in a movie about the trials and tribulations of teens at a performing-arts school, the most interesting characters are teachers. Part of that could be blamed on the laug...

When Mark Whitacre heard that Steven Soderbergh, the Academy Award-winning director of Traffic, would be making a movie about his life and that chiseled Mr. Jason Bourne himself, Matt Damon, would...

As the profits of the music industry continue their meteoric fall, the desperation of the measures taken by record companies to avert-or at least to cushion-the crash has become all but impossible...

Thomas Sowell has for years been probably America's best writer on economics, particularly when that discipline intersects with politics. During the 1990s I used his book The Vision of the Anointe...