He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.” By Clay Risen Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels ...
NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher ... Robbins could match any narrative in his books with one about his life. There was the time he had to see a proctologist and ...
Romance books are having a renaissance, from social media to sales to our local book scene. Here's what to know.
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By Erica Ackerberg Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives ...
Raleigh-based Republican consultant Carter Wrenn has had a front-row seat to decades of political history. He worked for the ...
Two years ago, when the black Irish comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” was nominated for nine Academy Awards, host Jimmy Kimmel welcomed the film’s four-legged star — Jenny the donkey ...
spending his life rooting out the secrets of old books and turning ancient wisdom into modern arguments as part of the great intellectual upheaval we call the Renaissance. A polymath and a ...
Tom Sietsema has been The Washington Post's food critic since 2000. In leaner years, he worked for the Microsoft Corp., where he launched sidewalk.com; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; the San ...
In his latest book, Cass R. Sunstein lays out what the U.S. owes to the rest of the world. Ada Calhoun’s debut novel about a middle-aged wife and mother offers a wry critique of the sexual ...
U.S. President Donald Trump's furious pace of orders slashing foreign aid, sending troops to the border and pardoning violent criminals has met little resistance in Congress. Federal judges are ...
An author says it has been an "extraordinary journey" watching his book being turned into a film starring Steve Coogan. Tom Michell's The Penguin Lessons is based on a trip he took to South America, ...