The Persistence — And Impermanence — Of Memory In 'The Buried Giant'

Kazuo Ishiguro has written his first novel in ten years — making it both a literary event and a news story. The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day has gone even deeper into history to write a story that's both one couple's on-the-road tale, and a mystery for a great civilization.

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"Jiggly Boy" Returns ... and KG Approves

On the night of KG's return, one longtime fan was turning heads. Even KG couldn't help but notice.

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Burn After Reading

In 1971, William Powell published The Anarchist Cookbook, a guide to making bombs and drugs at home. He spent the next four decades fighting to take it out of print.

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The Cop Who Loved the Oak Bar

Jack Maple was a New York City cop with champagne taste and a beer wallet. When he fell for the swank charms of the Plaza Hotel, his life began to unravel. Richard Price's latest novel, The Whites, written under the pseudonym Harry Brandt, is getting rave reviews. Last week, Price was asked by The New York Times about his favorite New York stories. The first magazine piece he mentioned was “The Cop Who Loved The Oak Bar,” by The Daily Beast's own Michael Daly.

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Herbie: One of the Special Ones

In September 2009, Domi Hocher and his then-girlfriend, Zainab, took off on what can only be described as the trip of a lifetime. Since setting out from their hometown of Vienna, Austria, six years ago, this couple has crossed 115 international borders, covered 118,000 miles while visiting 80 countries (including all 48 "lower" states in the United States), and set foot on six of the globe's seven continents.

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The Word-Hoard

For decades Robert Macfarlane has been collecting unusual words for landscapes and natural phenomena--from aquabob to zawn. It’s a lexicon we need to cherish in an age when a junior dictionary finds room for ‘broadband’ but has no place for ‘bluebell.’

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3 Books-Becoming-Movies to Put on Your Radar Now

The year 2014 was an exceptionally good one for us bookworms, but 2015 already has some very promising contenders on the docket.

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