Departure(s) explores several of Barnes' lifelong obsessions — mortality, memory, and time. It's slim but weighty, digressive ...

The author, who has just turned 80, has written a poignant, semi-autobiographical novel exploring love, memory and ageing.

Philip Larkin’s last words, Julian Barnes tells us in the final pages of this affable book, were “I am going to the ...

Ezra Klein and State Representative James Talarico of Texas discuss his faith, his politics and his Senate race.

George Orwell's crusade against the misuse of language resulted in his name becoming an adjective—and his writing becoming ...

A brilliant prose stylist, confident, amiable, and wonderfully lucid when talking about other people’s problems, Updike ...

It has been 9,133 days since William Jefferson Clinton was president. In that time, the World Trade Center has fallen. The first mass-produced product with WiFi, Apple's iBook, was less than two years ...

The Democratic senator challenged his Republican rivals to decry what he called "police state tactics." Republicans say he is siding with the radical left.

A lawsuit has been filed against Adam Savage, the co-host of "Mythbusters," alleging that he sexually abused his sister when ...

In twentieth-century Britain, the Mitford name became entangled with the rise of European fascism. On October 6, 1936, the most beautiful of the six sisters, Diana Guinness (née Mitford), married ...

BBC invited Palestinian thinker Edward Said to deliver six lectures on the public intellectual, writes Juliet Jacques. Can ...

As we speak, for the 15th consecutive day, Iranians are protesting the Islamic Republic and its tyrannical leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Iran was once a society that embraced egalitarianism, was open to ...