[This entry was updated by Douglas Fowler (Florida State University) from his entry in DLB 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series.] E. L. Doctorow's narrative art is a distinctive fusion of moral involvement and poetic transformation. L...

One of the most celebrated and controversial novelists of the past two decades, E. L. Doctorow has an uncanny ability to reach both the general audience (The Book of Daniel, Welcome to Hard Times, and Ragtime have been made into movies) and the literary...

"It was juggling that had got me where I was . . . . I practiced my juggling. I juggled anything, Spaldeens, stones, oranges, empty green Coca-Cola bottles, I juggled rolls we stole hot from the bins in the Pechter Bakery wagons, and since I juggled so c...

World's fairs are modern events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas medieval fairs were concerned with the selling of goods, modern world's fairs were involved in the selling of industrial technology and industrial society;...

Walking through walls will be possible and even encouraged. When next year's world expo opens in Zaragoza, Spain, fairgoers will encounter a building with walls made of thin sprays of water. Inside, there will be normal building stuff: a cafe, an exhibition space and overhead...

When the World Expo opens in Zaragoza, Spain, next year, fairgoers will encounter a building with walls made from water.The water will come from thousands of little jets that can be switched on and off, rapid-fire, by computer-controlled sensors.The resulting effect will enable images and...

In a country of drive-thru dinners and 30-minute meals, cuisine can be more fraught than haute. So advocates of the slow food movement are planning what they bill as a "World's Fair of food" next year."The challenge, the game, truly begins here in America," said...

A burger battle is brewing between a Texas state legislator and the owners of Louis' Lunch, a restaurant established in 1895, where it has been claimed that the hamburger was invented.However, with the new session of the Texas legislature now under way, Republican State Rep....