J. D. Salinger spent ten years writing The Catcher in the Rye and the rest of his life regretting it. Before the book was published, he was a World War II veteran with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; ...

Abdo Gobeir's new introduction to Surur's 'Protocols of the Elders of Riche' looks back at the 'madness' that followed Egypt's traumatic 1967 defeat Egyptian author Abdo Gobeir, a close friend of ...

When molecular biologist Max Delbrück received the Nobel Prize in 1969, he rejoiced but also had a lament. Samuel Beckett’s contributions to literature, which were honored at the same time, seemed to ...

The dramatic story of Hong Kong's return to China and the 16 years which have followed is not always an easy one to understand. Controversial issues such as universal suffrage, national security laws ...