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U.S. President Ronald Reagan In January 1989, U.S. President Ronald Reagan issued his “Farewell Address to the Nation” from the Oval O...

FDNY's Organ Preservation Unit follows the ambulance. Some ideas are downright repugnant. Like … paying for human organs. On the other h...

The author, Rick Bragg, won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996, for his work with The New York Times. Rick Bragg recently spoke in...

In September of 2010, The New York Times said this about the book and author: What can we learn from the bees? Honeybees practice a kind of ...

In 2007, The New York Times said this, of the book and author: In "The Man Who Would Not Shut Up," Marvin Kitman, a veteran televi...

Richard McGowan was recently quoted in The New York Times feature story, "States Look for Winning Formulas to Spur Lottery Sales:"...

The New York Times introduces Bill Carter's new book this way: [In] his new book, “The War for Late Night,” Bill Carter, a television re...

The New York Times introduces the new Jane Smiley book this way: “You know the story of the invention of the computer?” one character asks a...

We speak with 2010 National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon about her novel "Lord of Misrule" -- and ride into the world of horse r...

Since his contract as a senior news analyst at NPR was terminated in October, Juan Williams has found no shortage of platforms from which h...

NYT: That night, a conversation between Steve Martin , the writer and actor, and Deborah Solomon, who writes a weekly interview column for T...

In "The Master Switch," Wu assembles all of these stories and reframes them as battles in a shifting landscape of high-stakes indu...

Timothy Egan's "The Big Burn" was just released on paperback, and so, WHYY Radio, NPR Fresh Air rebroadcast last year's i...

This week, conversation with two writers who made the Book Review's Top Ten Best Books of 2010: Jennifer Homans, author of "Apollo...

Fans of the Beatles fans are gathering at global vigils on Wednesday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of John Lennon. What m...

W. Bruce Cameron’s A Dog’s Purpose is a New York Times best seller. The novel is about a dog named Baily that finds himself reincarnated ove...

This Week: A conversation about the Book Review’s list of the 10 Best Books of 2010; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; John Schwartz di...

This Week: A conversation about the Book Review’s list of the 10 Best Books of 2010; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; John Schwartz di...

Every day Americans navigate a torrent of data. We field a barrage of work and personal emails. We update our status and check on our friend...

This week, Charles McGrath discusses William Trevor's new collection of short stories; Patricia Cohen reports on the digital humanities;...