John Martin, Devoted Publisher of Literary Rebels, Dies at 94 Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S ...

“A Time for Mercy” takes us back to Clanton, Mississippi, where Jake Brigance, the hero of John Grisham’s first novel, “A Time to Kill,” practices law. Though more than three ...

McCrum on Books Augustus John is a bohemian legend – but his quiet sister Gwen is the true genius While her wild younger brother is a feted household name, Gwen John is hardly known.

IT is known to many through the numerous applications I have made, that a collection of the letters of Sir John Herschel is in progress. For the many and valuable contributions, as well as for the ...

Finally a biography of John Donne that captures his eccentricities, his contradictions, his fabulous twists and turns, his trickiness, and—as one critic has put it—his thinking “awry and squint.” ...

In “Flashes of Brilliance,” Anika Burgess takes us back to the 19th century to showcase the artists and innovators who developed the revolutionary technology.

Back to Article List July 18, 1915: The birth of John Glenn Today in the history of astronomy, the first American in orbit is born.