I gave up after about 100 pages of John Burnham Schwartz’s 1998 novel Reservation Road, a typically overwritten and contrived slice of mass-market literary pablum that hopscotches between the ...

You may wonder why a mainstream movie with such name actors as Mark Ruffalo and as big a star as Joaquin Phoenix never made it to a theater near you. In part it shows that actors are slowly but surely ...