From the Front Lines Whether it is soldiers, journalists or civilians, the stories and images of life in a war zone are sometimes the only way many of us can begin to experience what war is like. From Iraq to Bosnia to Rwanda, stories of these experiences are everywhere....More
The Private Lives of the Impressionists Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Their contemporaries branded them as lunatics but today this is a roll-call of great artists, whose paintings evoke a...More
Books You've Never Read
You may know that Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, but what about Eight Cousins? Take a look at some suggestions of authors you've heard of, but books you might haven't.
Left as an orphan after her father's death, Rose Campbell is sent to live at the "Aunt Hill" with her six aunts and seven rowdy boy cousins. For someone who is used to a girls' boarding school, it all seems pretty overwhelming. Her guardian, Uncle Alec, makes her eat healthy things like oatmeal, and even tries to get her to give up her pretty dresses for drab, sensible clothes. Will Rose ever get used to her uncle's crazy notions and all her noisy relatives?
Stephen King or Richard Bachman? Stephen King also wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman for some of his earlier novels. The name was a combination of the first name of a pseudonym for another fiction writer, and the last name of musician.
