Book World

"Angel Time" by Anne Rice, in which a preternaturally gifted hit man is saved, comes across as more message than story.

• Read an excerpt of 'Angel Time'

Art review

For Koen Vanmechelen, a profound question of our time is: "Did the chicken come to me, or did I come to the chicken?"

Q&A: David Adamson

Blake Gopnik asks David Adamson, one of the first people in the country to make digital art prints, about the benefits and flaws of digital photography before FotoWeek D.C.

Names & Faces

At Thursday night's 16th annual Knock Out Abuse gala, Washington's upper-crust ladies -- and 700 friends -- spent a lot of money in the name of domestic-abuse prevention.

Concert review

The Apollo Ensemble brought two of  Salamone Rossi's delightful trio sonatas to their program of Jewish Baroque music at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater.

Movie review

Richard Kelly is becoming the cinematic poet laureate of suburban Virginia, as seen in this movie, in which a NASA scientist and his wife find a box with a button and a sinister promise.

Style Invitational

We Trebeckon you yet again, with 12 possible answers. Tell your joke in the form of a question, please.

Advice

I usually trust my instincts, but lately I've noticed that I'm jealous or suspicious of most women in my boyfriend's life.

Museums

National Geographic will exhibit the 2,000-year-old figures, which were dug up in the Chinese countryside in 1977, through March.

• VIDEO: The Warriors arrive

Movies

Julius Shulman, the irrepressible and engaging subject of this documentary, was no ordinary architectural photographer. His work is a fascinating primer of modern architecture, the culture of Los Angeles, and the meaning of a well-lived life.