Doris Lessing

At 102, therapist is too busy to stop working

2011-10-02 00:00:00

Lately I've been wading into streams of mail from readers approaching death. Some are fighting it, some are afraid, some are ready to go. And then I heard from two readers with an update on Hedda Bolgar. I wrote about the Brentwood therapist three...

Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes

2011-05-30 16:34:47

Opera review: Philip Glass' 'Kepler' has U.S. premiere at BAM

2009-11-19 16:32:40

'The Year of the Flood' by Margaret Atwood

2009-09-27 00:00:00

The Year of the Flood A Novel Margaret Atwood Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 434 pp., $26.95 Lady Oracle has been quiet the last six years. Yes, there have been half a dozen books, an opera even. But no novels, and it is in her novels that Margaret Atwood...

'Alfred & Emily' by Doris Lessing

2008-07-27 00:00:00

Alfred & Emily Doris Lessing HarperCollins: 276 pp., $25.95 Doris Lessing has never been one to shy from bold moves. She married early to escape her overbearing mother, then left her husband and two children, wedding a German Communist classed as an...

Connecting to Hay on Wye

2007-05-06 00:00:00

THE BEST WAY From LAX, KLM offers connecting service (change of planes) to Cardiff, Wales, about 47 miles from Hay on Wye. Restricted round-trip airfares start at $734. WHERE TO STAY The Swan at Hay, Church Street, Hay on Wye, Herefordshire; 011-44-...

Le Clezio -- who's he?

2008-10-10 00:00:00

If the selection of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel literature laureate has anything to tell us, it's that Horace Engdahl means what he says. Last week, Engdahl, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, called American...

The Question: What was your favorite book as a child?

2012-01-24 00:00:00

"'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling. I thought I was Mowgli, or I wanted to be Mowgli and have talking critters as friends. Absolutely, I wanted to escape the ghetto. I wanted to get out of poverty and live in some place magical. It seemed to me that if...

"Esto no es una película", la voz de Panahi atraviesa las rejas de su cárcel

2011-05-20 00:00:00

Treinta y dos candidaturas de 25 nacionalidades optan al Premio de las Letras

2011-05-27 00:00:00

Lobo Antunes, Yan Lianke y Alice Munro optan al Príncipe de las Letras 2011

2011-05-29 00:00:00

Alice Munro, Leonard Cohen e Ian McEwan, finalistas del Príncipe de Letras

2011-05-31 00:00:00

Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. HIT Surprise! Lessing had just returned home from a shopping trip when she was ambushed by a pack of media wolves looking to get her reaction to the Nobel announcement.

2007-10-12 15:49:03