'Namesake' spans continents and generations
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The film is a classic immigrant saga about how profoundly disorienting it can be to live in two cultures.
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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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Although âHeydayâ is a historical novel conceived on a grand scale, it is also a walking, talking almanac.
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Smashing stereotypes forged over centuries and bearing the burden of being an inspiration to a billion compatriots is a mighty tall order.
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Fundamental issues of ethnic and religious identity and the agony of exile are at the heart of âLive and Become.â
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This year's BookExpo America will be a story of networking, the old way and the new.
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We appear to be in a geological epoch of our own making. Should it be named for us?.
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A historical accident becomes the new brand for a global giant.
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Every seven years since 1964, the filmmaker Michael Apted has released another installment of "The Up Series." These films document the lives of a diverse group of Britons from the ages of 7 to, most recently, 49. One of the patterns that emerges is a dramatic illustration of the Jesuit motto that inspired the series: âGive me a child until he is 7 and I will give you the man.â You can clearly see how these kidsâ very different personalities were fully formed at age seven.
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NEW YORK  - Michael Apted's landmark films documenting the lives of a disparate group of Brits in seven-year intervals have always been fascinating from a sociological perspective. But the latest installment proves that they are undeniably brilliant cinematically as well.
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Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayanâs enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay (present-day Mumbai).
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - More than 60 years after the end of World War Two, German author Bernhard Schlink found the time was right to explore the guilt and moral conflicts which were a legacy of his home country's Nazi past.
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And a nation of immigrants rediscovers the world.
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Cynthia Ozick's new novel, Heir to the Glimmering World, is very much in line with the other fiction for which she is known so well. This story, like many of her others, deals with the Holocaust, obsession with scholarly arcana, mental imbalance and the lives of outsiders. The moral seriousness is evident from the start, but the novel also is a very good story.
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Yaron Zilberman's moving documentary approaches the Holocaust from a fresh, intimate perspective.
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Nearly 200 names are added to the definite list of people who have made an impact on society.