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Who will soar? Who might sink?

A pair of career arcs: Angela Lansbury’s real age, and the ages (estimated) of her characters.

Tony season is under way, and The Year of Magical Thinking isn’t even nominated for a best-play Drama Desk trophy�confirming that a backlash-proof memoir does not an award-winning play make.

Christopher Hitchens on religion (no thanks), Iraq (not a mistake), and his own loud reputation.

Creative-writing teachers are regularly faced with disturbing student work. But is the writer dangerous?

The road from White House disgrace to Broadway buzz.

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun started out as a work of straightforward journalism�the story, told by the son of Rhodesian white settlers, of the once-prosperous nation’s steep decline at the hands of dictator Robert Mugabe. Then Peter Godwin found out that his father.

Writers who still traffic in dead trees are just beginning to figure out how to promote their books in the online networking universe. A few basic ways authors are making a name for themselves on MySpace.

Jeff Daniels talks about the problem with New York audiences, and why Farrelly brothers comedies should be considered art.

Does a cover slot on The New York Times Book Review guarantee future success?