Bravo’s “Top Chef” continues to refer to Shirley Chung as executive chef and owner of Twenty Eight, but the reality is she broke ties with the Irvine restaurant several months ago. The departure was ...

Salman Rushdie has been giving us incandescent books for 40 years. I, for one, first read him at age 13, and the experience was unforgettable, mind-expanding, a watershed moment in my road to becoming ...

As great novelists enter the latter stages of their careers, they can become their own worst enemies, in the sense that each new book is inevitably judged against its predecessors. The slim late ...

Salman Rushdie’s very bad new novel “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” spends a lot of time restating the same idea over and over. Often the language doesn’t even change. It’s all about ...

Well, things aren’t looking too good. A ferocious storm has rampaged for three days, leaving destruction and upheaval in its wake. New York is in a mess; nothing makes sense anymore. But this chaos ...