Joan Didion, the celebrated American writer and journalist ... Addressed to her now-deceased husband, John Gregory Dunne, the 46 entries of “meticulous” notes penned from 1999 onwards were seemingly ...

Writers tend to be good company. We’re witty, shrewd, and, I’ve been told, we make decent drinking companions. So when a beloved author dies, who wouldn’t want to salvage just a few more pages to ...

In 1972 she became the first woman to anchor a national evening news broadcast. She retired this summer after 50 years on the air. By Trip Gabriel Susan Stamberg, a husky, familiar voice on NPR for ...

October 16; Washington, D.C. — Susan Stamberg, award-winning journalist and one of public radio's most beloved and pioneering voices, died today at age 87. One of NPR's "founding mothers," Stamberg ...

Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...

You become what you consume, they say, and bad words madden the mind just as junk food bloats the body. I figure if I had to consume it, then the author should cope with the pollution it wrought. I ...

He was irreverent, absurdist and ahead of his time. Here’s the best of the best by the groovy pied piper who made poetry fun. Credit...Alice Ochs/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images Supported by ...

His fascination with terrorism, cults and mass culture’s weirder turns has given his work a prophetic air. Here’s where to start. Credit...Photo by Sara Barrett Supported by By Gregory Cowles Gregory ...

The celebrated author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” may have a cult following on campus and a reputation for formidable literary high jinks. But his novels are also just plain fun. Credit...Author photo by ...

Physicists and Buddhist contemplatives often seek to solve the same puzzles, from different angles: What is consciousness? How is reality shaped by observation? What does it mean for something to ...

A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death. Credit...Portrait by ...