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Golden Days starts out as a fun tale of '80s Los Angeles. By the end, it's a devastating portrait of life after a nuclear blast. Author Gabrielle Zevin says it showed her that novels, like life, can span multiple genres. Do you have a favorite book about life in California? Tell us in the comments.

This week, our intern shares her family's recipe for Extreme Ice Cream Sandwiches: Make cookies, bake them for only four minutes, freeze them, and then put ice cream in between. It's like cookie dough ice cream, reversed. Genius.

Peter Heller's novel follows protagonist Hig and his dog in a world ravaged by an epidemic and overrun with barbaric thugs. But its fragmented, poetic narrative — complete with a somewhat unconvincing love story — goes a long way toward dealing with the devastation.

In The Long Road to Antietam, historian Richard Slotkin traces how both Northern and Southern strategies changed in the summer of 1862, when both sides committed to an all-out total war, and Lincoln squared off against Gen. George McClellan.

David Grabarkewitz, Artistic and General Director of El Paso Opera previews upcoming performances and special events in the Opera’s 19th Season.

When it opened in 1953, nobody expected much of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. But what began 60 years ago as two plays in a tent is now a major theater festival. It attracts half a million ticket-buyers a year to the small Ontario town — which also boasts homegrown heartthrob Justin Bieber.

Author Larry McMurtry's used bookstore is holding an auction to whittle its nearly half-a-million-title collection down by more than half. "I'd like for the American antiquarian book trade to stay vital and ... energetic," McMurtry says, "and pouring some books into it is a good way to help."

In Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich's latest novel, What in God's Name, God plans to do away with people so he can focus on opening a restaurant in heaven. An angel makes him a bet that if he can bring two shy, lovelorn humans together, God must spare humanity.

Spike Lee's latest sets itself up as a descendant of his classic Do The Right Thing. It pits a young vegan atheist (Jules Brown) against his Baptist preacher grandfather (Clarke Peters) in Brooklyn. Critic Ian Buckwalter says that daring stylistic feats aside, the movie is clumsy and unfocused.

Julie Delpy's follow-up to 2007's 2 Days in Paris finds Marion (Delpy) living with a new boyfriend (Chris Rock) and their respective kids. Tensions mount when Marion's French family visits. The film is unruly and energetic, says critic Stephanie Zacharek, but that's a significant part of its charm.