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Book Review: Language Games

Melynda Nuss on two new books about how we communicate in a multilingual and multicultural world.

But is Accosting the Hotel Maid Also Wrong?

Can legal scholar Allan C. Hutchinson's recent book 'Is Eating People Wrong?' inform us about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault scandal in America? New York attorney Alan Behr reviews the book and offers an opinion on the legal case against the former IMF chief.

Poetry: The Year of the Ecstatic Pessimist

The enigmatic Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz — Nobel Laureate, diplomat, iconoclast — is remembered on the centenary of his birth.

Book Review: Fade to Black

Paul Donnelley's collection of brief, often macabre, obituaries of Hollywood luminaries is a perfectly ghoulish read for an evening punctuated by Trick-or-Treaters ringing the doorbell every ten minutes.

The Imagined Dénouement: 3 How To Survive an Atomic Bomb

In the latest of his “Imagined Dénouement” series, O. Tyrone Shulaise proposes what the final page of a book might be, based solely on the appearance of its cover.

Thank Heaven for Not-so-Little Girls

Alan Behr in New York on the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Book, "Heaven."

A Book By Its Cover 2: Tap-Tap Island

In the latest of his “Imagined Denouement” series, O. Tyrone Shulaise proposes what the final page of a book might be, based solely on the appearance of its cover.

The Imagined Dénouement: 1

In the first of a series of humor essays, O. Tyrone Shulaise imagines what the final page of a particularly torrid (and actual!) 1960s pulp novel might be, based solely on the appearance of its cover.

ALL ABOUT PANDAS: FUN AND FACTS FOR CHILDREN

Barney Kilgore: The Man who Made the Wall Street Journal

At America's economic nadir, a cub reporter joined a foundering business publication and, over the course of a remarkable career, molded The Wall Street Journal into the model of modern journalism. A new biography chronicles his remarkable legacy.