Jhumpa Lahiri writes fiction about the Indian immigrant experience in America. She surprised the literary world in 2001 when she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her very first full-length effor...
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Lights! Camera! Activism!
A coterie of Brooklyn celebrities has aligned itself against Bruce Ratner's plan for a Nets stadium and surrounding development in Prospect Heights.
The group includes H...
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If you look on the bright side, many more new homes were sold in May than Wall Street had predicted. But they were mostly in the South. (And the West. And the Midwest.) As for us lovely Northeaster...
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At 5:15 on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 29, James Frey informed his fans, in strikingly confident terms, that he had finished his first novel. “Done,” he wrote on his blog. “...
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Somewhere back there, I was left behind. It happened at my book club. When the group started, we were seven women who craved cheap wine more than Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. The text was ju...
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Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate and dean of Jewish-American fiction, passed away on Tuesday, April 5. He was 89. Bellow, in such novels as Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King...
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Wednesday 30thMy goodness, my Guinness! Some lessons learned this week: We've given up on taking the subway, at least when it's raining ( Moby-Dick or no Moby-Dick, the delays get our rage on...
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John Flansburgh, of the band They Might Be Giants, was on the phone. “I have mixed emotions about ‘fabulous’ Williamsburg,” said Mr. Flansburgh, 47, who has lived in that ne...
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John Flansburgh, of the band They Might Be Giants, was on the phone. “I have mixed emotions about ‘fabulous’ Williamsburg,” said Mr. Flansburgh, 47, who has lived in that n...
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams: We Hate Ratnerville!
