Stephen Hawking and Stephen Jay Gould have repped for science, Jasper Johns for visual art, Amy Tan for novelists. But in a legacy of political relevance (and good humor) that wanes and waxes depending on the year (and collection of writers), Assange’s...

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This may already be happening, in fact. Many of my undergraduate students have revealed to me that all that they know about the likes of Tony Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Frampton, Amy Tan, and John Updike is what they learned watching reruns of...

But she was the first Caucasian one. She had gone to research a novel with fellow author Amy Tan. See stood out with her red hair and fair skin, the villagers coming outside their homes to glimpse the American-looking woman. See's writing has always...

Councilmember Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) and his staff wore red on February 3 for the American Heart Association’s National Wear Red Day (aka Go Red For Women) to build awareness of women’s risk for heart disease and stroke. Pictured here (l. to r.);...

BLF requires no introduction. But as a relative newcomer, the Capital Literary Festival could use one, especially since its considerably larger, attention-grabbing sister festival, the Shanghai International Literary Festival, is celebrating its 10th...