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Writer-director Olivier Assayas' latest film, set in Paris' literary world, is a "mostly delightful, occasionally exhaustingly word-drunk comedy of manners larded with giddy farce."

Five spellers in this year's National Spelling Bee shared a coach: Bill Schaefer, a retired school teacher from Denver. Since he started teaching in the 1970s, he's built a community for spellers.

This month, we've got love stories about teenage girls who pull patriarchy-smashing pranks, a realistic discussion of female biology and a story about learning how to be your own Tom Hanks.

The author says writing this novel was like writing an "anti-murder mystery." Murder mysteries are nice and tidy, she says, but this disturbing morality tale is about unforeseeable tragedy.

Over a quarter-century ago, the Milwaukee Brewers debuted their racing sausages. Now, nearly two-thirds of baseball teams have their own racing mascots, including a tooth, dumplings and presidents.

The event, known as the Great Conjunction, will be visible with the average home telescope, says Dean Regas, head astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory.

The Arizona Board of Education has made it a requirement that middle and high school students learn about the Holocaust and other genocides, beginning in the spring semester.

Nearly 40 years after HIV/AIDS was first detected, more than 30 million have died.

Officials need to understand communication styles and preferences in order to convince people to follow health guidelines. Gaurav Suri says psychology should inform how officials set public policy.

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, says people in some of the highest-risk groups will likely be starting vaccinations this month.