Bio illuminates 19th-century writer
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"Washington Irving: An American Original" (Arcade Publishing, Inc. 468 Pages. $29.99), by Brian Jay Jones: Two centuries before blogs, standup comedy or "The Daily Show," there was "Salmagundi," a periodical of satire whose founders and contributors included the young man of letters Washington Irving.
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Genetics pioneer Craig Venter has news from the frontiers of biology.
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The 61st annual Tony Awards showed fondness for the 19th century with awards for âSpring Awakeningâ and âThe Coast of Utopia.â
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In 2001, Martin Amis, Rick Moody and other authors and artists gathered in New York to honor a peer they regarded as a giant of the times. They compared him to Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and Arthur Rimbaud. They called him a bard, a shaman and a master of "art as revenge."
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Literary archivists have discovered a long-lost work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the British poet who spearheaded the Romantic movement, scribbled around 200 years ago in the margins of a book, a report said.
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Letters written during a tumultuous year and  unsealed this week offer a rare glimpse inside the heart and mind of  the 20th century's greatest genius
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A little-known festival turns Charles Darwin's birthday into an international tribute to the glories of scientific thought. By Wired News staff.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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A LIFE DECODED My Genome: My Life By J. Craig Venter Viking. 390 pp. $25.95 We already know some things about J. Craig Venter: for example, that the self-styled renegade biologist and genome sequencer has little patience for governmental or academic bureaucracy. There are also the biological deta...
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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Ms. Middlebrook was a biographer, poet and critic known for her best-selling, controversial life of the poet Anne Sexton.
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John R. Brinkley was much more than just a mere medical quack, and his bizarre story is told with uproarious brio in Pope Brockâs heavenly book.
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With this âautobiographyâ of his family, Alexander Waugh demonstrates that heâs inherited the literary gene in spades, as well as a gift for very funny, coruscating prose.
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From Communist spy to distinguished professor to successful painter: Lawrence Martin-Bittman's biography reads like a novel, but it's all true.
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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Alison Case's research focuses primarily on narrative in the 18th- and 19th-century British novel, women novelists, and gender in Victorian poetry but also includes narrative theory, women's studies, history of ...