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At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.

The gritty, bloody and relentlessly youthful musical features some of the most effectively vivid violence seen on a Broadway stage.

An excerpt from “The Plot,” by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication.

In his new book, Sebastian Mallaby mentions the “alleged shortcomings” of venture capital but is ultimately bullish about what it has to offer.

Sam Knight’s book is about two eccentric Englishmen, a psychiatrist and a journalist, who teamed up in 1967 to study human foresight.

James Shapiro reviews Lena Cowen Orlin’s book, which focuses on Shakespeare’s life in Stratford.

Amia Srinivasan’s brilliant essays urge us to think more fully about sex, as a personal experience with social implications.

In Yael van der Wouden’s debut novel, “The Safekeep,” the writer spins an erotic thriller out of the Netherlands’ failure to face up to the horrors of the Holocaust.

For decades, fans have hoped for an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman story, a seminal work in the world of comics and beyond. A series version arrives Friday on Netflix.