The greatest trick ever pulled in childrens' literature was by Lewis Carroll, who somehow managed to write (in Alice) a story that is fundamentally disturbing and obeys none of the traditional rules ...

"'Tideland' is a weird movie," the movie store clerk told me as I checked out. "It sounds like 'Pan's Labyrinth,'" I said. "Is it?" "No," he said, "it's nothing like that at all. It's weird." I ...

Eight-year-old Jeliza-Rose leads a tough life, with both parents being addicts. When her mother dies of an overdose, the remaining family moves into her grandmother's abandoned country house in the ...