Can he be trusted? Is she a fraud? In� "Sex, Lies, and Handwriting," expert Michelle Dresbold says clues to the truth can be found in a person's penmanship. An excerpt.

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Can he be trusted? Is she a fraud? In� "Sex, Lies, and Handwriting," expert Michelle Dresbold says clues to the truth can be found in a person's penmanship. An excerpt.

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Can he be trusted? Is she a fraud? In� "Sex, Lies, and Handwriting," expert Michelle Dresbold says clues to the truth can be found in a person's penmanship. An excerpt.

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Martin Amis's angry, off-the-cuff comments about Islam set off an old-fashioned literary donnybrook in Britain.

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"Love and Consequences," the critically acclaimed memoir published last week, was completely fabricated, and the real author, Margaret Seltzer, not Margaret B. Jones, has come clean.

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Mr. Buckley marshaled a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center of American political discourse.

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Mr. Buckley marshaled a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center of American political discourse.

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Lorne Michaels says he recognizes that "SNL" needs to re-establish a pattern of viewer expectations because the show is vulnerable in ways it never has been before.

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When the Writers Guild of America held its awards ceremony Saturday night, it felt more like a victory celebration. So after the long strike, the writers won, right?

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One returning Hollywood writer asked, "Can anyone remember what we were working on three months ago?"

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Emotions are finally settling down in the entertainment industry's bubbling cauldron of labor disputes.

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What different visions of female childhood tell us about ourselves.

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What can Pat Hobby, Fitzgerald's fictional hack of a screenwriter, tell us about the current strike?

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Two crucial intermediaries and some diplomacy finally turned an icy standoff into the kind of hot-and-bothered bargaining in which Hollywood deals are forged.

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Informal talks have eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, people briefed on the situation said.

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Striking writers dropped their demand for extended jurisdiction over reality and animation work and said they won't picket the Grammy Awards telecast.

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At 26, Jon Favreau is writing speeches for a man who owns the words.

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How did a Holocaust memoir rejected by 15 publishers and largely ignored by readers go on to sell 10 million copies?

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Still pounding the pavement at 77, a reporter keeps alive the grit, vitality and maverick spirit of New York's phone-booth-and-fedora days.

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In Japan, cellphone novels have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.

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In Japan, cellphone novels have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.

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The Sundance Film Festival, which opens with "In Bruges," the playwright Martin McDonagh's film debut, is one of the oddest ecosystems on earth.

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Some bad news for striking Hollywood writers: Election 2008 is a breakaway hit.

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For the moment at least, the antistrike strategy of replacing scripted entertainment with so-called reality series seems inspired.

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The Hollywood writers' strike is threatening a beloved Tinseltown institution: the swag bag of free luxury items.

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