By Robert DarntonInformation is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What, for example, will become of research libraries
By Joyce Carol OatesThe Enchantress of Florenceby Salman RushdieIn Salman Rushdie's Fury (2001), a novel of Swiftian dyspepsia published the very week of September 11, the fifty-five-year-old misanthropic Professor Malik Solanka, 'retired historian of ideas,' has enjoyed an unexpected popular
By Freeman DysonA Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policiesby William NordhausGlobal Warming: Looking Beyond Kyotoedited by Ernesto ZedilloI begin this review with a prologue, describing the measurements that transformed global warming from a vague theoretical speculation
Beth Fehlbaum is a teacher and an author. Her debut novel, Courage in Patience tells the story of a teenage girl's first foray into recovery from sexual abuse.In this interview, Fehlbaum talks about the factors which compelled her to start
The Telegraph is reporting today that Robert Knox, a young actor that is set to appear as Marcus Belby in the upcoming 'Half-Blood Prince' movie, was tragically killed in a stabbing incident in London.
An Iranian translator thinks that 16 different translations of Harry Potter may be a bit much Or is it a free-market-paradise, unfettered by those limiting copyright conventions ?
In the Amherst Bulletin Bonnie Wells considers When spirits fuel the muse: Examining alcoholism and madness in literature and film, as: Of eight native-born Americans awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, five were alcoholics.
