David Foster Wallace was a famous writer, which is not that common anymore. He wrote "Infinite Jest," arguably the most important novel of the past ...

A typical late-boom baby, I had a TV in my room from a very early age. This gave me a remarkable amount of control over ...

It was a long shot but I thought I'd give it a try. Tony Hendra was making the publicity rounds for his latest book, a novel, ...

"Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports... the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat... the human drama of athletic competition... This is ABC's Wide World of Sports!"...

[caption id="attachment_6415" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Scofield (left) as Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons in 1966"][/caption] During the nearly sixty years he graced stage and screen, ...

A young political operative who charmed a beautiful woman to marry him for his intellect despite his dough-boy appearance, Tim Russert ended up hitting it ...

Many of us grew up being nursed to health with grandma's chicken noodle soup. But ever wonder why it's not quite the same when we ...

With the much-anticipated release of Doubt, Philip Seymour Hoffman is once again receiving the kind of critical kudos reserved for actors who are generally tagged ...

Readers familiar with Marilynne Robinson’s 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead will already know the central plot of her new novel, Home...

My mother, the cat and I decided to sit outside to eat our dessert. We don’t sit there as often as one might think. The deck is stained the color ...