The complete online text of The Great Secret by E. Phillips Oppenheim.

While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific writer. The author of more th...

We cling lovingly to the memories and music of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, who would have been 91 years old today, and that is fine. Except that somewhere along the way we seem to have forgotten what it takes to groom more masters like...

These Chesapeake Bay cooks share their tried-and-true recipes. On tiny Tangier Island, Virginia, seafood rules-and with good reason. Fishing has been a way of life for generations on this remote island, providing sustenance as well as income. Entrepreneurs and best friends Irene Eskridge,...

EXIT GHOSTBy Philip RothHoughton Mifflin, 304 pages, $26 What to do when the best living American novelist writes a weak book? The New Yorker solved the problem (in the Oct. 1 issue) with an extended Q&A, allowing Hermione Lee to caress the author with feather-soft...

Only live to a great age and you can become a hero. For much of his life, I.F. Stone was a marginal figure in American journalism, neither persecuted nor impoverished but sometimes harassed by the government and ignored by the respectable press. By the time...