Like most of Atom Egoyan's movies, his newAdoration operates on multiple levels, and works on many of them. The problem is that the aspect of the film that doesn't convince is the human one.

Author Jeffrey Zaslow considers how 11 women sustained a 40-year friendship in his book"The Girls From Ames"

Multifaceted artist Booker T. returns to the music scene with his first album in 20 years titled"Potato Hole"

Poet Nikki Giovanni describes love poetry as the antidote to the craziness of the world in her latest collection of poems

Goetz Spielman'sRevanche juggles the sacred and the profane, the pastoral and the urbane, by way of a muscular plot touched with black comedy. Critic Ella Taylor says it's got a touch of the timeless.

Sergei Rachmaninoff called him the greatest pianist of the 20th century, but Vladimir Horowitz was filled with self-doubt. After a self-imposed 12-year exile, Horowitz triumphed when he returned to the concert stage with a performance at Carnegie Hall on May 9, 1965.

Literary biographer Frances Wilson publishes a compelling narrative of the unusual life of Dorothy Wordsworth in her latest work"The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth."

Clifton Williams, a 17-year-old pianist and resident of Southeast Washington, D.C., performs on"From the Top." With roots in Gospel music, Clifton only began studying classical music three years ago and does not even own a piano. Yet, his passion and dedication has led him to perform on national public radio and helped him earn a prestigious national music scholarship through From the Top and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

The director's latest is the ultimate Jim Jarmusch joint: a story that isn't really a story, with characters that aren't really characters, a movie hyper-aware of its own status as a movie. Nathan Lee says it's dazzling.