One of the many books I first heard about from Stan and later learned to love is the American philosopher Richard Rorty’s luminous text Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. “I found myself ...

For a long time I was an earnest player in what Richard Rorty called the “America Sucks Sweepstakes ... University and is editor in chief of Image journal. His most recent book is On the Road with ...

Richard Rorty has played a role, I am afraid ... In your estimation what are the basic philosophical books of the 20th Century? I think the two basic books of the century are Russell and Whitehead’s ...

The new coffee-table book from The Daytona Beach News-Journal and USA TODAY Network chronicles everything from the earliest years of fast cars on Daytona Beach, to the Speedway’s birth in 1959 and ...

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The author of “Clockers” and “Freedomland” returns with the story of an East Harlem neighborhood in the wake of a catastrophe ...

In his new novel, “Playground,” Richard Powers explores the majesty, the mystery and the fragile future of the planet’s seas.

His treatment, developed with David Nalin, was elegant in its simplicity, which made it accessible to people and countries ...

A hymn to mercy and love, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” springs to my lips when my heart is quiet. I teach it ...

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"Playground" (W.W. Norton), the latest novel by Richard Powers (the Pulitzer Prize ... The shelf of deep-sea books. The globe of a fishbowl filled with guppies and swordtails.