John Updike

++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Doubleday: $26.95) A novelist in 1920s Barcelona takes a dangerous writing assignment. || 1 || || 2. || The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown:...

PROTECT AND SERVE: A police officer (Wentworth Miller) helps a woman (Jennifer Ferrin) in trouble and gets roped into investigating a serial rape case on 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,' at 9 p.m. TV Listings First time here? Enter......

ABC has decided not to order additional episodes of its new Wednesday-night drama 'Eastwick,' which is about as close as a network gets to saying it's canceling a show these days. While much of ABC's Wednesday night has been a......

For more than four decades, David Levine created the gentle literary caricatures that have graced the pages of the New York Review of Books. The comic illustrations, which include memorable renderings of such figures as John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates........

Loren Graham, professor of the history of science at MIT and Harvard, discusses his years of experience in the former Soviet Union, as described in his book Moscow Stories. In this interview, he discusses what went wrong with science under the Soviets,...

Longtime New York Review of Books illustrator David Levine died today in New York. He was 83. Levine's drawings of authors and cultural icons were exaggerated, but not comical. His political portraits were often pointed -- Richard Nixon rarely looked........

David Foster Wallace dispenses exactly three pieces of writing advice in “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,� David Lipsky's transcript of the five days he spent with the author on his 1996 “Infinite Jest� book tour. T...

"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" had all the makings of a hit, even without Arnold. But after just two shortened seasons, Fox pulled the plug on the blockbuster franchise's move to TV. Ratings had fallen to a series low by May, and it seemed the...

The Suicide Run Five Tales of the Marine Corps William Styron Random House: 198 pp., $24 The business -- and I use the word advisedly -- of posthumous publication is a troubling one. We honor our dear dead. Yet there are certain kinds of attention...

During the last decade, more than ever before, writers faced the challenge of cutting through the noise. The new millennium began with the enduring influence of W.G. Sebald: his marriage of word and image somewhere deep in the reader's subconscious; his...

David Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated the New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died. He was 83. Levine died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications from other...

Last week I listed some books I'd hold hostage from the library, just like the Longwood mom who refused to return books she found offensive. (Thanks to those who recognized the threat's satirical nature.) Now that Tina Harden has released her...