Minnesota writer Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” may be on everyone’s lips these days, but is now really the time to ...

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is a TV series about Mma Precious Ramotswe, who starts Botswana’s first female-owned detective agency. The show revolves around her as she solves cases with a unique ...

Anika Noni Rose (“Dreamgirls”) heads a roster of thesps now set alongside multihyphenate Jill Scott for Weinstein Co. telepic “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” Film, helmed by Anthony Minghella, ...

Is HBO on Its Way Back?Great ratings for two HBO series, plus the announcement of the ultimate HBO show, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, make us hopeful.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" is the first TV series on U.S. cable network HBO with an African female lead character, but don't expect to see much about the continent's ...

It's entirely unnecessary to look for topical relevance or domestic parallels in "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency," a new limited-run series from HBO that is engaging, charming and intoxicating ...

(“The Miracle at Speedy Motors” by Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, 214 pages, $22.95). Mma Precious Ramotswe is back, clever and smart as ever in “The Miracle of Speedy Motors,” the ninth ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.