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A Q&A with actor and The Threepenny Opera star Alan Cumming.

A tabloid-besieged star returns to Broadway.

As a rule, vampire musicals inexorably lead to financial and critical bloodbaths, but that doesn’t stop our entertainers from giving them a go, over and over again. As Elton John’s Anne Rice�derived Lestat premieres, it’s high time for a comparison of musicals that suck.

Q&A with Craig Ferguson, host of the Late Late Show and Writer of the new novel Between the Bridge and the River.

A novelist who’s imagined the end of the world turns to an even more apocalyptic period: adolescence.

Literary libertines Edmund White and Erica Jong have long used their own amorous histories in the service of fiction. But now both have new (and newly revelatory) memoirs out. Prompting the entirely academic query: Who’s had a more interesting sex life?

A new book on an old�and entirely disgusting�criminal practice.

�I felt somewhat betrayed.�

The author of The Intuitionist and the forthcoming Apex Hides the Hurt tells the story behind five books plucked at random from his collection.

Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really�Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.