When not selecting Presidential nominees, Oprah Winfrey goes about her day job of instructing lesser mortals on what to buy, how to raise their children, and, most famously, what to read. Until...more >
Halfway through Andrew Lycett's biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, the subject chairs a literary society dinner attended by W.B. Yeats. The name of a giant of modern poetry comes as a shock until...more >
When AOL was still the e-mail address of choice and Google was but a glimmer in a geek's eye, Cindy Margolis was queen of the Internet. The Guinness Book of World Records called her the “most...more >
Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends by Pete Fornatale (Rodale) On Simon & Garfunkel's “Bridge Over Troubled Water" album, there were 11, instead of a then-standard 12 tracks. The two...more >
There's a game afoot in “Diary of a Bad Year," the latest novel by the famously stern Nobel Prize winning novelist J.M. Coetzee, which is both a political polemic and a meditation on writing...more >
The global confrontation brought about by the rise of radical Islam had its culminating moments on 9/11, in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the sudden appearance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the...more >
December 16, 2007 - Books historical, hysterical, fiction and non - so many choices for the holidays, so little time left. Here's a gift guide to some of the season's best. FOR COUCH POTATOES...more >
December 16, 2007 - Upon closing “The Late Hector Kipling" I thought its plot defied summary. Then I remembered that Hector Kipling ably provides one himself: “Dad's in hospital, Kirk's in hospital...more >
December 16, 2007 - At an address before the Independent Women's Forum in 2006, Condoleezza Rice made a spine-tingling statement: “[T]he fact is that our Founding Fathers, trying to create a perfect union of ‘We...more >
December 16, 2007 - When conservative commentator David Frum started writing a book on the future Republican agenda in late 2004, the right was riding high in the aftermath of George W. Bush's re-election. The...more >
December 16, 2007 - Celebrities have been big business in America for more than a century. During the glam World War I era, film and theater industries exploded. Al Jolson and Fanny Brice reigned on Broadway. Charlie...more >
December 9, 2007 - Here is a fun thing to know. At some point in school we were all taught that the reason Medieval Europeans so lusted after spices from The East was to preserve their meats. Absolute...more >
December 9, 2007 - The graphic novel “Shooting War," by freelance reporter and TV producer Anthony Lappe (writer) and online comics pioneer Dan Goldman (artist), tells the harrowing story of leftist Vlogger...more >
December 9, 2007 - Here's a history test no one should fail: Name a president whose “only reading materials were government documents and Bible scriptures" and whose tenure was linked to an increasingly...more >
December 9, 2007 - There are two kinds of geeks. Software geeks, with their endless lines of code, password hacks and algorithms. And hardware geeks, with their soldering irons, circuit boards and Rube Goldberg...more >
December 9, 2007 - Zugzwang by Ronan Bennett (Bloomsbury USA) For readers intrigued by Michael Chabon's use of chess in his super-imaginative “The Yiddish Policemen's Union," here's...more >
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