Entertainment & Arts
Light in the noontime darkness: The fierce life and thought of Arthur Koestler.
Jan. 17, 2010
Books
‘Koestler’ by Michael Scammell
ARTHUR KOESTLER The Homeless Mind; By David Cesarani; The Free Press: 646 pp., $30
Jan. 9, 2000
World & Nation
“There is a dream which keeps coming back to me at almost regular intervals; it is dark, and I am being murdered in some kind of thicket or brushwood; there is a busy road at no more than 10 yards distance; I scream for help but nobody hears me, the crowd walks past laughing and chatting.”
Aug. 5, 1992
‘I feel like a character in a novel,” President Bill Clinton says at one point in the Starr report, with unwitting irony, for it appears near the end of the section titled “Narrative.”
Sept. 27, 1998
California
The newest partial owner of the Sacramento Kings, Shaquille O’Neal, met with Gov.
Sept. 24, 2013
Many thinkers and politicians have changed their opinions. Here are five who switched their views.
April 9, 2006
THE JEWISH WORLD OF YESTERDAY 1860-1938, edited by Rachel Salamander, translated from the German by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart (Rizzoli: $65; 320 pp.)
May 17, 1992
A soft-spoken American started work here recently as one of only two professors of parapsychology in the world: He is investigating whether some people can put a jinx on machines.
April 13, 1986
If you want only one biography of Boz for your bookshelves, our reviewer says this one is it.
Dec. 23, 2009