The yearning for a charismatic leader rose again last night in America, when Twitter – what else? The yearning for a charismatic leader rose again last night in America, when Twitter – what else? – cried out for President Winfrey or, as we would surely call her, President Oprah. What else is …
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqis guarding Baghdad’s many checkpoints, on the lookout for car bombs and convoys, don’t know what to make of Ali al-Moussawi when he pulls up in a truck displaying shelves of glossy books. The mobile bookstore is the latest in a series of efforts by the …
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” his celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Monday’s announcement confirmed the book as the literary event of 2016, an Oprah Winfrey book club pick and critical favorite …
Best-Selling Books Week Ended January 22nd. FICTION 1. “Never Never” by James Patterson and Candice Fox (Little, Brown) 2. “Carve the Mark” by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books) 3. “Double Down: Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet) 4. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One …
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Barack Obama is not leaving his presidency quietly. Besides his farewell address to the nation Tuesday night, Obama has been on a media blitz during his final weeks in office. The biggest broadcast networks have all been granted interviews, culminating in a full-circle talk Sunday on …
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California almonds are becoming one of the world’s favorite snacks and creating a multibillion-dollar bonanza for agricultural investors. But the crop extracts a staggering price from the land, consuming more water than all the showering, dish-washing and other indoor household water use of California’s 39 million …
NEW YORK (AP) — Like a serial for the digital age, the book world’s most dramatic story of 2014 unfolded in installments, often in real time. A dispute about e-book revenues between Amazon.com and Hachette Book Group led to Amazon’s removing buy buttons, cutting discounts and reducing orders for works …
We have a new movie genre! Or a mini-genre. Or the beginnings of one, anyway. This pleasing, if imperfect, new form is the elegantly shot movie about people (mostly old ones) opening their hearts to the world through exposure to the rich, colorful variety of Indian culture. Think The Best Exotic …
Today is Sunday, May 25, the 145th day of 2014 with 220 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Neptune, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter Mars, Mercury and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include poet/philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson …
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 26, the 57th day of 2014 with 308 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter and Uranus. Those born this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include British playwright Christopher …
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2014 with 336 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Saturn and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include Swedish scientist …
Today is Friday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 2014 with 348 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Saturn and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. They include American statesman, …