"Robert Ludlum," wrote Colin Harrison in the New York Times Magazine, "whose novels have sold 290 million copies (more or less the population of the United States), knew what makes a successful thriller. And that, above all, is velocity." Pages do not si...

Robert Ludlum (born 1927) is a prolific author of best-selling spy and thriller novels noted for their complicated plots and high-powered suspense. The diverse settings and time periods are embellished by his protagonists, who are ordinary people either...

Suspense novelist Robert Ludlum "has his share of unkind critics who complain of implausible plots, leaden prose, and, as a caustic reviewer once sneered, an absence of 'redeeming literary values to balance the vulgar sensationalism,'" Susan Baxter and M...

On "Cry Cry Cry," their first album as a trio, Dar Williams, Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky have removed the hyphen from the singer-songwriter label. In recording 11 songs from other artists, the Cry Cry Cry trio reminds us that the songwriter is not...

Biochemist William H. Frey, arguably the world's principal authority on human tears, has a few things to say about political crying in general and Pat Schroeder's crying last week in particular. "In the first place," he says, "it has nothing to do with sex....