Books

Adele has made no bones about the fact that her first two albums were inspired by heartbreak, but she’s refrained from airing much of her dirty laundry in public. So naturally, when writer Marc Shapiro decided to pen the superstar singer’s unauthorized biography, he went digging for dirt — and his new book, ‘Adele: The Biography,’ purports to tell the story of the shattered relationship that prece

So what’s this ’50 Shades of Grey’ thing you keep seeing everywhere? Women all around you are reading it — ladies on the bus, that khaki-pantsed woman clutching her pearls in the coffee shop, your mom. And now they’re making it into a movie. Lucky for you, I read this thing so you don’t have to.

There’s going to be a wild rumpus in heaven tonight. Maurice Sendak, beloved author and illustrator of such children’s classics as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and the controversial ‘In the Night Kitchen,’ passed away in Danbury, Conn. following complications from a recent stroke. He was 83.