One of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras won international acclaim after she was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel L'Amant (translated almost immediately into English as The Lover). Although Duras...

Middle East: Violence between rival Palestinian factions has erupted across the Gaza Strip. The death toll since the fighting escalated Saturday has hit 70. But in the West, none dare call it a civil war.The intelligentsia of the developed world have too much invested in...

Two new translations of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace will be published in the United States this fall, one claiming to be the definitive version and the other claiming to be the long lost, more accessible first draft. The first translation, out on Knopf in...

The format war between two rival high-definition video disc types soon could turn into a price war. Cheaper players for both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats are slated to come out later this year. But HD DVD players likely will continue to have the...

War On Terror: In a sly semantic move, a Democrat House Committee secretly ordered the removal of all references to the "Global War On Terror," nonchalantly claiming it wasn't political. Who are they fooling?The Military Times reported that Erin Conaton, a staffer on Missouri Rep....