Subtitled Adventures of a Curious Character, the title comes from the response his eyebrow-raising behavior once provoked from a Princeton dean's wife. Feynman, who won the Nobel Prize in...

From the author of The English Patient and winner of the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Canada Governor General's Award, comes a new novel of electric artistry and impact...

Scenes from London include major sights, from Big Ben to Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, with glimpses of St Paul’s Cathedral, Piccadilly and memorials to Wellington and...

Five stories from influential women writers of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. New Zealand-born Katherine Mansfield...

When the bride of a Boston police detective vanishes, he hires Spenser to find her. His path leads from a New England college campus to glamorous L.A. Sports clubs. When the trail turns to a world...

Often considered the greatest epic in any modern language, Paradise Lost tells the story of the revolt of Satan, his banishment from Heaven, and the ensuing fall of man and his expulsion from...

Much of the richness of our language and moral education is owed to a Greek slave who was executed over two thousand years ago. Literally hundreds of metaphors, axioms, and ideas that are woven into...

In this fascinating docu-drama that was a hit at Cannes, Toronto, and Venice Film Festivals, a man and a woman in their early seventies meet after their respective spouses had died, and begin to...

Homicide detective Beaumont investigates the death of a Japanese-American businessman. The case appears to be a Samuri suicide.

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he is...