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Bookends: Can Writing Be Taught? [19 Aug 2014|02:00pm]
Rivka Galchen and Zoë Heller discuss whether writing can be taught.
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ArtsBeat: The Richard III Diet: Wild Birds, Frequent Feasts and Plenty of Wine [19 Aug 2014|03:01pm]
New evidence from an analysis of Richard III’s bones suggest that he lived like a king — a wealthy one.






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Malala Yousafzai: By the Book [19 Aug 2014|06:16pm]
The activist and co-author of “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World” relished “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” the first book she read in the hospital when recovering from an attack by the Taliban.






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ArtsBeat: Ginsburg and Alito to Speak at New-York Historical Society [19 Aug 2014|06:28pm]
Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel A. Alito Jr. are among the luminaries scheduled to speak at the New-York Historical Society this fall and winter.






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Leonard Fein, Provocative Writer on Jewish Affairs, Dies at 80 [19 Aug 2014|06:36pm]
Mr. Fein wrote voluminously about contemporary Jews, Judaism and “the often stormy relationship between Jews and Judaism,” and founded groups to combat hunger and illiteracy.






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Books of The Times: In ‘Doctored,’ Sandeep Jauhar Examines a Broken System [19 Aug 2014|09:22pm]
Sandeep Jauhar reveals much in his memoir, “Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician.”






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‘Kreutzer Sonata Variations’ Has a Scorned Wife’s Rebuttal [19 Aug 2014|09:36pm]
Tolstoy’s spouse, Sophia, wrote two novellas in reply to his story “The Kreutzer Sonata,” works that will be included in “The Kreutzer Sonata Variations,” from Yale University Press.






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‘Kreutzer Sonata Variations’ Has a Scorned Wife’s Rebuttal [19 Aug 2014|09:36pm]
Leo Tolstoy’s spouse, Sophia, wrote two novellas in reply to his story “The Kreutzer Sonata,” works that will be included in “The Kreutzer Sonata Variations,” from Yale University Press.






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