The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a ...
Shapps, a veteran Conservative member of parliament, previously held other Cabinet-level roles under a series ... played in the band Big Audio Dynamite in the 1990s. The group was founded by ...
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.