One of the new charges against O.J. Simpson could carry a possible life sentence, but the former American football star's immediate concern is getting out of jail while he awaits trial.Simpson's lawyer said he would make a plea for Simpson's release Wednesday, a day after...

Prosecutors filed formal charges Tuesday against O.J. Simpson, alleging the fallen football star committed 10 felonies, including kidnapping, in the armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in a casino-hotel room.Simpson was arrested Sunday after a collector reported a group of armed men charged into his...

The former director of a whaling museum and an antiques dealer pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally importing hundreds of sperm whale teeth from England and selling them to U.S. merchants.Lewis Eisenberg, 61, the former director of The Whalers Village Museum in Lahaina, Hawaii, bought many...

Authorities have arrested 52 people in a major crackdown on a suspected ring of antiquities looters from dozens of sites in southern Spain, the Spanish Civil Guard said Wednesday.The raids took place in several provinces, including Seville, Madrid and Barcelona, where police searched at least...

In the essay below, Costa analyzes Fowles's narrative technique and delineation of character in The Collector.

John Fowles has never been at ease with fiction. Even in so neat a package as The Collector we had the sense, here and there, of one or other of the author's intellectual concerns awkwardly protruding from the surface of the narrative. The Magus, probably the best thing he has ever done, used the machinery of fiction like a hydro-electric dam adequately to contain and direct his sometimes overpowering conceptual flow. In The French Lieutenant's Woman, an archetypally late 1960s morsel of redis...

Essay describes how the narrative in "The Butterfly Collector" by Frederick Clegg reveals that in the end he, himself, is captive to his limitations.