Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identified by critics--not by the so-called minimalists them...

Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than two decades. Beattie's fiction explores the emotional...

Digital photo processing offers promise of new revenue stream for drugstores Brick-and-mortar pharmacies seeking a competitive edge in the face of Internet e-commerce competition may have to look no further than their photofinishing counter. Traditionally, photofinishing is a big draw for many...

The picture will take a long time to forget: the commando pointing an MP-5 submachine gun at a 6-year-old boy and the fisherman who had plucked him from the sea. (An Italian American, by the way, hardly the anti-Castro Cuban so caricatured by the...

The parents of Madeleine McCann on Thursday released an artist's impression of the man they believe abducted their daughter during a family vacation in Portugal.The sketches depict a man with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a brown or maroon top and beige trousers walking with a...

Paramount Pictures will no longer be showing Tom Cruise any more money.  The feature film organization and the Jerry Maguire star are officially separating in an unamicable split that the studio says is a result of Cruise’s off-screen behavior. This includes his crazy couch conduct...