On the first day of production on the New Zealand location of “Avatar: The Way of Water,” actor Cliff Curtis asked if he could bring his family to the film’s home base to give a traditional blessing.

Jonathan Franzen's last novel, The Corrections, was published on Sept. 1, 2001. A few weeks after that, American life was no longer the thing he'd captured so vividly in his book. It's taken Franzen ...

“I have much to learn,” Stewart said. “‘Disguise your deception and capitulation to power as noble and moral and based in freedom.’ Yes, master.” By Trish Bendix Welcome to Best of Late Night, a ...