‘Maus’ Holocaust Novel Removed From Classrooms by School Board
A school board in Tennessee voted unanimously this month to ban “Maus,”…
David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected
David Byrne is all about connectedness these days. “Everybody’s coming to my…
In Peru, Courts ‘Used Like Whips’ to Silence Journalists
The police raided a reporter’s house after he investigated an elite Catholic…
A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at the Grolier Club
This has the makings of a detective story with hints of history:…
In a New Series, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Gets More Worldly
And, Tennant added, “we worked hard on the thrills and spills.”The narrative…
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87
Joan Didion, whose mordant dispatches on California culture and the chaos of…
Reveling in the Joys of Books, and Reading, at a Baghdad Book Fair
BAGHDAD — Protesters in Baghdad hold a sit-in demanding that U.S. troops…
bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69
“I think of bell hooks as being pivotal to an entire generation…
Anne Rice, Who Spun Gothic Tales of Vampires, Dies at 80
When she was 15 her mother died; she said she believed the…
