Helen Thomas agrees she's not the best choice to give the commencement address at Walt Whitman High School. Psychologists diagnose Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder. Researchers armed with a laser find meditation preoccupies the mind, dulls pain. For nearly two centuries, a small Shiite sect called the
Using a Renaissance practice of wood inlay known as marquetry, Alison Elizabeth Taylor reproduces scenes of foreclosure in Las Vegas.
Fans crushed outside World Cup warm-up match in South Africa. Recent political news written by an academic; Israel's news written by authors. News stories to anticipate this week. Bullet-pointed scenario where today's current events could become World War III. Reagan's national security
Whether ruining a perfect game or mistaking your mother-in-law for a man, you can’t be expected to get every call right.
Obama cancels Asia trip to focus on oil spill; Free Gaza says new ship is on schedule. Wieseltier: Israel does not need enemies: it has its government. Long Island prodigy recommends plugging the oil leak with tires. Baghdad's U.S. embassy reports property worth millions gone missing. Six
Tom Rachman’s debut novel The Imperfectionist (Dial Press) obviously makes use of his newspaper experience working at the Associated Press as a reporter in Sri Lanka and India, and as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Perhaps it’s my inattention, but Rachman’s fictional international,
When your publisher won't pay you for translating a popular German guide to anal sex, don't take the law into your own hands--take 'em to court. But which one?
I’ve been meaning to mention this since I noted the recent monograph on the inimitable Molly Ivins, that there is a one-woman play entitled Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, which hopefully will be coming to a theater near you. Consider this: Ms. Turner
Marilynne Robinson (Gilead) is, of course, a gifted novelist and a highly-regarded mentor at the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop. She is no stranger to nonfiction, having published two collections of essays, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. Now comes Absence of Mind (Yale University Press)
David Shields’s Reality Hunger, which claims to be a manifesto of sorts, is an interesting read—around 600 epigrams illustrating something or other about the demise of fiction. Actually, I am still not sure what it claims, which may cause you to stop reading right here. I have talked
