Anthony Horowitz on ‘Moriarty’
Well over a century after he first appeared in a London magazine, the great detective Sherlock Holmes is more popular than ever. Some of his latter-day incarnations are in pastiche...
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Renee Rosen on ‘What the Lady Wants’
As a little girl growing up in Akron, Ohio, Renée Rosen often visited Chicago with her mother, whose itinerary almost always included a stop at Marshall Field's. They would stroll...
Scott Saul on ‘Becoming Richard Pryor’
Nine years after his death, Richard Pryor remains an intense presence in American pop culture. A transformational figure in stand-up comedy — 1979's often autobiographical "Live in Concert" cemented his...
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The first Christmas gift I can remember receiving was a book. I was 4 years old, still unable to read, but when Santa left me a copy of "The Wonderful...
Walter Isaacson on ‘The Innovators’
We think of innovators in general, and the giants of the Digital Age in particular, as lone geniuses. But just as the heralded designs attributed to visionary architects such as...
Ha Jin on ‘A Map of Betrayal’
With one foot in China and the other in the United States, Ha Jin is the quintessential Chinese-American writer. As a teenager, he served in the People's Liberation Army during...
Aasif Mandvi on ‘No Land’s Man’
As "senior brown correspondent" (and sometimes "senior Muslim correspondent"), Aasif Mandvi is often one of the funniest performers on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." But in real...
William Gibson on ‘Peripheral’
Novelist William Gibson may be the greatest fortune teller in the history of speculative fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace," and in his first novel, "Neuromancer" (1984), he more or...
Simon Rich on ‘Spoiled Brats’
Simon Rich has lived something of a charmed life. The son of the political columnist and former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich and the stepson of Alex Witchel,...
Review: ‘The Prince of Los Cocuyos’ by Richard Blanco
One of life's great challenges is finding a home: not just a physical home, but a sense of being at home — at home in your culture, at home in...