“There are something like 15,000 books in our house,” says the author of “Everybody” and other books, “including pretty much every poetry pamphlet published in…
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They Always Had Paris — So He Went Back There Without Her
PARIS WITHOUT HERA MemoirBy Gregory Curtis Following the death of my wife, Aura, who was fatally injured while bodysurfing in Mexico, I received a signed…
Denis Donoghue, Humanist Literary Critic, Dies at 92
Denis Donoghue, an Irish academic whose wide-ranging literary tastes, erudite analysis of poets like T.S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats, and fierce aversion to the…
John Naisbitt, Business Guru and Author of ‘Megatrends,’ Dies at 92
John Naisbitt, a struggling business consultant and trend watcher who in 1982 hit it big with “Megatrends,” a book that galvanized a country just emerging…
Unforgotten writer confirms string of hidden clues in ITV drama's theme song – did you spot them?
UNFORGOTTEN'S writer has confirmed there are a string of hidden clues in the ITV drama's theme song. The long-awaited series four of the ITV drama…
‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf
“She’s such a compassionate describer of her characters with all their flaws,” says the prolific translator, most recently of Júlio Dinis’s “An English Family” and…
In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject
Every other year, at a botanical garden in the Chelsea neighborhood of London, the playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard throws a lavish, all-day party for…
Sharon Kay Penman, Whose Novels Plumbed Britain’s Past, Dies at 75
Sharon Kay Penman, a former tax lawyer whose best-selling epics about medieval England and Wales drew legions of admirers for her meticulous research and commitment…
Kristin Hannah Reinvented Herself. She Thinks America Can Do the Same.
Growing up in California and the Pacific Northwest, Kristin Hannah never wanted to become a novelist. It was a career for dreamers, she thought, kids…
In the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei’s Father Burned the Family’s Books
“It confirmed in me how powerful those words printed on paper, and the images in between, could be,” says the artist and human rights activist,…