What George Pelecanos really did in his first book -- besides drag appliance salesman/bartender/private eye Nick Stefanos and a few other lively characters through the hell of Washington's mean streets -- was write a love letter to the nation's capital. His protagonist spends afternoons...

BUREAU. The president of a small-town New England bank turns the key in his Coupe DeVille and heads off into the predawn gloom on a day in late December. He drives from his elegant estate through a lakeshore town alight with seasonal decorations....

American actor and filmmaker George Clooney took on his most personal role—that of an unapologetic liberal—to make a pair of politically charged movies that earned him the best reviews of his career. In 2006 he won his first Academy Award, a best supporting actor Oscar...

Diplomacy: If there's any question about the success of President Bush's Latin America tour, check out the aftermath: Friends of the U.S. say they're strengthened, while allies of Hugo Chavez are seeing new turmoil.It probably wasn't Bush's intent, but his tour seems to have had...

In the following essay, Braun traces the psychological basis of Jean-Paul Sartre's presentation of fear in "Le Mur" in the Traité de Psychologie of Georges Dumas.