Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling is one of 14 children's author's who have written an open letter to the world demanding international action on behave of the children of Darfur. On the eve of the 'Global Day for Darfur' Ms.
By Robert GottliebTravels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947â€"1962: The Wayward Bus / Burning Bright / Sweet Thursday / The Winter of Our Discontent / Travels with Charley in Search of Americaby John SteinbeckThe extraordinary thing about John Steinbeck is
By Robert SkidelskyMaking Globalization Workby Joseph E. StiglitzMaking Globalization Work is the third of Joseph Stiglitz's popular, and populist, books. Like Jeffrey Sachs, Stiglitz is an economist turned preacher, one of a new breed of secular evangelists produced by the
By Raymond BonnerEight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bayby Clive Stafford SmithThe One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11by Ron SuskindDetainee 002: The Case of David Hicksby Leigh SalesThe Terrorist
By Stanley WellsShakespeare's Wifeby Germaine GreerIt is now over two hundred years since the discovery of a love letter written by William Shakespeare to his future bride, Ann (or Anne, or even Agnes) Hathaway. Along with it came a silk-tied
By Elizabeth DrewThe Democrats didn't expect so much pain. The assumption was that out of a patch of good candidates one would emerge to take on an inevitably weak Republican--the field was seen as lacking and George Bush as a
By Colm TóibÃnHart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Lettersby Hart CraneThere are certain single volumes of American poetry, some of them first books or early books, which carry with them a special and spiritual power; they seem to arise from
By Alexander StilleGomorrahby Roberto Saviano, translated from the Italian by Virginia JewissLast year, Italy seemed to wake up to the problem of the Camorra--the Neapolitan equivalent of the Mafia--in the form of 2,700 tons of garbage. On the nightly news
By Andrew ButterfieldPoussin and Nature: Arcadian VisionsAn exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 12â€"May 11, 2008.Nicolas Poussin has been studied and celebrated for more than three hundred years, and yet 'Poussin and Nature,' now on view
The recently published "Art & Craft - Ideas and Techniques" authored by Rika Nel and Elna Venter, is a landmark initiative in the educational field and within its sector. It is the first such publication since independence in 1990, and
It was Ian McEwan's day at last. Unexpectedly overlooked by both the Man Booker and Costa Prizes, his latest best-selling novel, On Chesil Beach, finally came up trumps on the awards circuit - picking up two honours at the same
