Stories tagged "booksandliterature"

Four new books illuminate the confluence of science, art and ornithology.

John le Carré's new novel examines spying in the post-9/11 era.

The House has passed a bill that would prevent foreign libel judgments from eroding free-speech protection in the U.S. Now, the Senate needs to act.

Eatonville, Fla., the first all-black town to incorporate in the country, is now a place of pilgrimage.

Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett approaches him seriously, covers vast terrain and tells a fascinating story.

With the recent collapse of large investment banks, the author of The Bonfire of Vanities answers the question,;Where does this leave the Masters of the Universe now?

In this important book, Mark Mazower provides the best available survey of the Nazi empire's precipitous rise and violent demise.

The maverick publisher of Grove Press, Barney Rosset, is the subject of the documentary “Obscene.”

Philip Roth’s latest book — in which a dead man tells of his too short life — reads like an elaborate, blackly comic joke. And it’s a joke, in the end, that doesn’t amount to a full-fledged novel.

Dennis Lehane’s historical novel of Boston in 1919 is a majestic, fiery epic that moves him far beyond the confines of the crime genre.