James Boswell is a hard act to follow. His Life of Johnson, written at close range after more hours in pubs and miles of travel with his eccentric subject than most could have withstood, is detailed, ...

nepalnepal — She was known for much of her life as the queen mother. And according to her official biography, she detested it. “Horrible name,” she wrote in a 1953 letter to her daughter, Queen ...

Notorious. (R) Fox Searchlight (100 min.) Directed by George Tillman Jr. With Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke. Now playing in New Jersey. TWO AND A HALF STARS. "Notorious" is the tale of a ...

New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez is apparently on a one man mission to prop up the ailing newspaper industry. The tabloid back pages love his home runs. The business pages drool over the 10-year ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Americans who have been living under a large, soundproof rock for the past year or so may be forgiven for not knowing that February marked the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The rest of us ...

Bookstores today release American Original, Joan Biskupic’s new biography of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. Joan gave Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog the first interview on the book, which you can ...

At some point the sun will be forced to make an extended stay in Michigan -- unlike squatters in the greater Detroit area -- which means you may be looking for a summer beach read that doesn't involve ...

Of the making of books by, about, from, around, among, between — pick your preposition — Charles Dickens, there apparently is no end. He wrote constantly, published promiscuously, lived intensely, ...

In case you're just joining this column, I have been a Tom Waits enthusiast since a college friend turned me on to the double live "Nighthawks at the Diner" in 1975. There is a new unauthorized ...

One of the world's great historians has written a biography of the man who is one of the immense figures of the last century. And perhaps surprisingly, the book is short. Just 192 pages. It is pungent ...

Health, Vol. 18, No. 5 (September 2014), pp. 493-508 (16 pages) During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, it was identified that women in the third trimester of pregnancy were particularly at risk of serious ...