Books of The Times: An Intellectual Insider, Forever on the Outside
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Introverted and combative, Alfred Kazin, who died in 1998 at 83, presents a wealth of contradictions for Richard M. Cook to put his arms around.
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Comment is free: Alan Rusbridger: The Guardian you read today - whether on newsprint or on a screen - has its roots in the struggle for suffrage and free speech.
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An inside look at the elaborate secrecy campaign around the biggest book of all time
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The former Middle East envoy talks to TIME about his new book "Statecraft" and how to bring peace to the troubled Middle East
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Graham Greene, who was born 100 years ago on Saturday, was a rarity in an increasingly parochial literary world -- a genuine internationalist with a keen political awareness who nevertheless refused to consider himself as a political writer.
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"An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England" (Algonquin, 320 pages. $24.95), by Brock Clarke: America lives in the age of the memoir and the confessional. It's the defining literary legacy of our time, much as insanely long novels marked the Victorian Age.
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Immy Humes' documentary  about her late father, Harold L. Humes, has a poignancy that  comes not only from its subject -- a largely forgotten but  highly important literary figure of the late 1950s and early  '60s -- but also from the inclusion of interviews with such  departed contemporaries as Norman Mailer, George Plimpton,  William Styron and Timothy Leary.
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The author of a new book talks about recent battles in court over church and state
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Susan Sontag, the writer and activist whose powerful intellect helped shape modern American thinking for nearly half a century, died yesterday at the age of 71.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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One of Europe's foremost critics of Islam is drawing attention stateside with her controversial new memoir, 'Infidel.' But how fair is the book?
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New Delhi, Oct. 10. - Her association with India is nearly two decades old. She is someone who had inspired environmentalists here to think big.
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Musings on sleep from scientists, philosophers, artists and more.
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A revolutionary who fought for spontaneity over correctness JULIA CHILD, 1912-2004
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Jacques Derrida was the Algerian-born, French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and unfathomable philosophers of the late 20th century.
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Pierre Bayard, a Paris University literature professor, has written a survivorâs guide for literature students, âHow to Talk About Books You Havenât Read?â
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If Benazir Bhuttoâs own life reads like a Greek tragedy, she was nonetheless a very modern politician, and the book she has written is part manifesto, part spin job, part selective history and part term-paper analysis.