If I had known as a child how good for me Robert J. (Bob) Keeshan intended Captain Kangaroo to be, I’m sure I never would have watched it. Keeshan, who died last Friday at 76 from a long illness, ...

There's a long tradition of novelists rewriting great books -- Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, for example, tells the story of the first Mrs. Rochester from Jane Eyre -- but lately some novelists have ...

If the Dunkin Donuts folks tried to charge you $100 for a Boston cream, you’d laugh in their faces, but if your mortgage company offered to reduce your monthly payment to the same amount, you’d jump ...