Only a tiny sliver of the Universe’s light can be seen by human eyes. But today we’re catching glimpses of the invisible ...

contemplative English writer and musician with over a dozen books and two dozen albums to his name, begs to differ. Dr. John’s debut album “Gris-Gris,” he claims, is one problematic piece of ...

I love novels that feature fictionalised versions of authors, and this one – set at an elite boarding school in 1960s America – is among the best. The teenage narrator longs to be a writer ...

D.D. Guttenplan and John Ganz discuss the hype, hustle, and collapse embedded in Trump’s ghostwritten canon. "Dog Eat Dog," Ganz's review of Trump's three books, is in the May issue of The Nation.

Many of John Green’s novels offer a snapshot of young adult reading culture in the 2010s – star-crossed teenage lovers and “manic pixie dream girl” characters, Tumblr quotes and metaphors ...

Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter is a podcast host, the author of 20 books, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His new book, Pronoun Trouble, explores the recent ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign. Jonathan L. Stolz is a resident of ...

Caleb Jones/AP Share WASHINGTON — John Feinstein, one of the country’s foremost sports writers and the author of numerous bestselling books, including the groundbreaking “A Season on the ...

John Feinstein, whose career as a columnist and bestselling author of sports books made him one of the most notable sportswriters of his time, died Thursday. He was 69. Feinstein died of natural ...

When it was built by John Wood the Younger between 1767 ... All is beautifully documented in the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, which takes up the charmingly modest 18th-century townhouse.

JG 1. A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin “John Rebus, the hero in many of Ian’s books, is getting old and even crankier. He’s trying to give up booze and cigarettes, but he can’t stay ...

Now, William Herschel is finally being recognised ... of English language and help with spoken English. He would read books on astronomy, optics, mathematics, philosophy, developing a particular ...