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 ...

The injudicious application of the term "minority" based on religion is generating fissiparous tendencies in different parts ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The events of May 1968 centred on Paris, but they resonated strongly in Britain, too. In his memoirs Alan Thornett remembers the chair of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee at the Cowley car plant ...

Georgia corrections officials say fighting at a state prison left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 inmates over the weekend. The Georgia Department of Corrections said in ...

A Baltimore community walked on Sunday in memory of a 14-year-old who was shot and killed last month in the Morrell Park neighborhood. The walk started at 2:47 p.m., which was the same time Michael ...