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The latest issue of the excellent and unusual journal Lapham's Quarterly , edited by former Harper's editor Lewis Lapham, is full of readings on the subject of medicine from writers from ancient Greece through modern times....
Storm on Sea by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky, 1899 Remember Winston Churchill’s words to Harrow School on a visit in October of 1941: Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large...
When I first met Richard Gere, it was all I could do not to point and laugh, reveals Celia Walden. The stars of Hollywood are often Lilliputian in size Photo: Getty Earlier this week, I was sent to interview the woman whose...
Woodrow Wilson's foes called him an ideologue, a hypocrite, and a coward. His admirers thought he was the hero who put forth the best hope for the world. Teddy Roosevelt labeled him a "prize jackass"; when Wilson died,...
The conflict in Afghanistan dominates headlines, but many people seek a deeper understanding of the country and the war the U.S. is fighting there. In the first of a series of suggestions for an Afghanistan "reading list,"...
Your tech dream may be your significant other's nightmare. Here are the items our married tech experts drool over (while belittling one another's choices). Dan Tynan and Christina Tynan-Wood, PC World Great Tech Gadgets: When...
Poetry for and About Moms to Use for Mother's Day & Other Occasions As time goes on, it gets harder and harder to choose gifts for mom. Why not make her something homemade and include a famous poem with heartfelt sentiment?...
Dead musicians. Harrison Ford, Actor. Howard Marks. Ex-smuggler and Raconteur... R H Princess Margaret, sister to Her Majesty the Queen. Howard Stern Hua T?o Medical use as anaesthetic . Hunter S. Thompson, Author...
As the fantasy world's renaissance man collects yet another award, he talks to Michelle Pauli Neil Gaiman's sweep of this year's children's fiction prizes with The Graveyard Book continued today after the Booktrust teenage...
Murder may be most foul when random and arbitrary, partly because the murderers may thus be imagining themselves God's equals, entitled to administer the ultimate in verdicts. Such was the character of a callous outbreak of...
