Joseph Heller has established himself as a major satirist in the field of contemporary American fiction. A new phrase was added to the American lexicon from the title of his first novel Catch-22 (1961). The term "catch-22" has become accepted in Webster'...

Joseph Heller (1923-1999) was a popular and respected writer whose first and best-known novel, Catch-22 (1961), is considered a classic of the post-World War II era. Presenting human existence as absurd and fragmented, this irreverent, witty novel satiri...

When Joseph Heller learned that the New York Times Book Review's response to his first novel was negative, he and his family were terribly depressed. "Waiting for that review to come out," he later told David Streitfeld of New York, "I didn't think any o...

In light of reports that Mets management has met with Alex Rodriguez’s agent Scott Boras, it’s worth considering what would happen if the team actually did go ahead and spend the estimated $300 million or more it would require to land the megastar free...

For more than a month now, reports have been coming in from the North Shore of an animal that looks like a hyena. "It's hard to say just why, but that's what it looks like," said Kathi Johnson, of Hovland, northeast of...

Like modern film cameras, digital cameras offer a series of picture-taking modes for situations such as candid portraits, scenes, night shots, action shots, and so on. However, there are things to keep in mind now working with a digital camera:   One important function...

Director Brian DePalma—whose new film, Redacted, opens this Friday—is not very happy about the way the movie has been treated in the months since he completed the project. The film tells the true story of an Iraqi girl who is raped and killed by...