literature

The best decision British actor Dev Patel ever made came in 2010 after the disastrous “The Last Airbender” adaptation by M. Night Shyamalan, in which ...

OLEAN — There’s something about a family of homicidal maniacs that would naturally lend itself to being a spooky Halloween story. But from the pen of ...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Youth Center held its annual Drive-thru Easter Egg Hunt March 23 at the youth center parking lot, benefiting local youth and...

ALFRED — Dr. Richard Kellogg, professor emeritus of psychology at Alfred State College, has authored his ninth book in a series of mystery stories for...

Writer Coleman Hughes went on “The View” and was greeted almost as though he had shown up wearing a white hood. Hughes, a soft-spoken black intellectu...

The tip came from the enemy. So, of course, the president found it suspicious — and provocative. He was, after all, ex-KGB. But what came next would h...

PORTVILLE — The Portville Free Library will host an event for Olean Times Herald columnist Deb Wuethrich at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The event is a book la...

BELMONT — Three students from Mrs. Miller’s first-grade class at Genesee Valley Central School were selected as winners in the Annual Genesee Valley P...

I thought we were done with the 1980s nostalgia trend and Hollywood had moved on to milking the ’90s for all their worth. Well, apparently not, becaus...

What do you do when your world comes crashing down? Probably the hardest thing a parent can ever be asked to bear is hearing their child has an incura...

The Olean Public Library has been serving the community since March 25, 1871. A lot has changed in the last 153 years, but the library’s commitment to...

Who cried at the end of “Old Yeller”? I’m guessing it’s just about everyone reading this. There’s something about dogs that makes us overly emotional,...

BOLIVAR — Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s “The Addams Family: A New Musical,” with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, takes the stage at Bolivar-Ric...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The Friends of Hanley Library will hold an Authors’ Series presentation featuring poet and author Helen Ruggieri at 7 p.m. March 26 in...

Well, the 96th Academy Awards were this past Sunday, and beyond “Oppenheimer” sweeping up as everyone expected, the main pleasant surprise — and one n...

SALAMANCA — Students and staff at Salamanca High School have had the opportunity to meet with an expert on the natural world and discuss its place in ...

Too many movie studios attempt to set up a potential series before a first film has any chance of making enough money or goodwill from fans to warrant...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — No, I did not know. In late July of 2019, I had dinner in New York with one of my dearest friends. We split a mediocre dessert, he...