A new book celebrating the science illustrations of Ernst Haeckel has launched on Kickstarter. The book features numerous drawings of microorganisms by the German zoologist and naturalist who ...

Helmed by “Downton Abbey” director Brian Percival, “The Book Thief” doesn’t carry a heavy war-movie presence. And while the starkness of the book is lightened, Percival’s adaptation is ...

"The Book Thief" has its moments of brilliance, thanks in large part to an adept cast. But the movie about a girl adopted by a German couple during World War II also crystallizes the perils of ...

Really people "The Book Thief" was so hands down better and the actors so far ahead of anything in "12 Years A Slave", especially the young girl.

With a book as beloved as The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, an adaptation was always going to be a challenge – but an inevitable one. The incredibly unique tale, narrated by death himself, follows ...

Zusak says he never expected “The Book Thief” to be turned into a film. “You sign up, but everyone tells you it’ll never get made,” says the 38-year-old Australian author.

And, in our latest KELOLAND Living Book Club pick, a girl living in Nazi Germany in 1939 has her life changed forever by the events of World War II. To unpack that story, we were joined by Lucy ...

Which weaken the frequent good parts of “The Book Thief” as British director Brian Percival frequently contrasts each piece of real drama with an underdone payoff, keeping tension from ever ...

Death narrates "The Book Thief," an adaptation of Markus Zusak's 2005 novel set in Nazi Germany, and you may be disappointed to find that he's neither a chilling nor comforting figure, just an ...