December 15, 2015 A Christmas question: Are the Gospels more reliable than scholars once thought? Recent discoveries are making Jewish, secular and agnostic scholars reconsider a century’s worth of skepticism toward the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ life.
December 10, 2015 Nobel Literature winner too sick to accept prize The Swedish Academy says Nobel literature prize winner Alice Munro won't travel to Stockholm to collect her award because of poor health.
November 17, 2015 FOXHOLE: Author Thomas Mallon on the mystery of Ronald Reagan As author Thomas Mallon began work on “Finale” in 2011, he felt Reagan’s inscrutability getting the better of him.
November 6, 2015 Bob Beckel's new memoir may help readers see why I call him friend In his new book, "I Should Be Dead: My Life Surviving Politics, TV and Addiction," Bob Beckel, the longtime Democratic Party political operative, tells a deeply personal story about searching for life's meaning through political power, drugs, physical abuse as a child, womanizing, hardball politics and finally a change of heart and direction. People are curious how two men who come from different backgrounds and hold different political views on most, but not all issues, could be close friends without compromising their beliefs.
November 3, 2015 In 'Great Gatsby,' the video game, Daisy meets Mario Bros. As a version of Fitzgerald's classic, it is a far cry from the Baz Luhrmann movie, in theaters Friday. But the DiCaprio film might give more life to this avant-garde, retro-style Nintendo game.
January 13, 2015 Sophie Hannah to revive Agathie Christie's 'Poirot' novel series Here's one mystery solved: Sophie Hannah is the crime writer given the formidable and most likely lucrative task of reviving Agatha Christie's famed detective, Hercule Poirot, in a new novel announced Wednesday.
