Gregory Harris
Content by Gregory Harris
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The Rowe family would probably have argued that the birth of their second son with severe visual and mental impairments didn't constitute a tragedy.
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Listeners of National Public Radio are familiar with Noah Adams' rich, evenly paced voice from his tenure as co-host of All Things Considered.
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In Don Winslow's second mystery, California Fire and Life, police officer Jack Wade takes the stand to testify at the trial of a man accused of arson and murder.
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Taking its name in part from his friends' answer to surfing swimming off an abandoned dock on the shores of Lake Michigan Rich Cohen's new memoir Lake Effect is a timeless
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Martial artists in movies often overcome overwhelming odds to meet their goals, from taking on hordes of black-garbed stuntmen to fighting a deadly showdown with a megalomaniac master.
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Most people who have enjoyed a day at the beach have experienced something like it: a crashing wave that blindsides you out of nowhere.
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The world is a complicated and changing place, with nations large and small cooperating and competing in trade, culture, and influence.
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The evolution of the mystery story has been driven by the development of the story's central character, especially since the influx of talented female writers into the genre.
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Tony Earley's remarkable debut novel, Jim the Boy, has been eagerly anticipated since excerpts appeared in Granta, The Oxford American, and The New Yorker's 1999 summer fiction issue, which declare
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The rise of Silicon Valley is the background for Sunnyvale, a moving autobiography by author and Rolling Stone contributor Jeff Goodell.
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When acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa released his 1985 masterpiece Ran, critics noted that the 75-year-old filmmaker brought the wisdom and disappointment of age to his adaptation of Kin
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Emily Jenkins had every reason to distrust the electrical crews building their massive steel high-tension towers on a right-of-way purchased from her family's mountain farm.
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Our cousins the apes have been getting a bad rap for decades. Victorian scientists derided the notion that such primitive animals might be related to the lofty Homo sapiens.
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n 1846, a small group of settlers who flocked to golden California to seek their fortunes met disaster instead.
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s he approached the age of 40, Joe Kita did what many men his age have done: took stock of his life.
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Legend has it that the marathon commemorates an ancient Greek herald who collapsed and died after running 26 miles to announce a victorious battle at the city of Marathon.
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ust is everywhere, both on planet Earth and throughout the cosmos.
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Writer and magician Glen David Gold has accomplished a supernatural feat of literary sleight of hand.
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The recent execution of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber seems to have temporarily quelled the ongoing debate about the death penalty.
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The majestic Grand Canyon is one of the natural wonders of the world and a popular attraction for millions of tourists.
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Alaska's Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, is a place of wondrous beauty, majesty and peril.
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Thrillers often explore espionage and intrigue from the inside, but Janette Turner Hospital's new novel Due Preparations for the Plague plunges the reader into the shadowy world of terrorism
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Like the vampire, lovers of horror tales have appetites that can't always be sated with a single offering.
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Wizards are typically portrayed as mysterious and secretive beings, but readers now have a chance to enter their enchanted world.
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Scott Elliott's impressive debut novel, Coiled in the Heart, is a moving tale of guilt, atonement and redemption that deftly melds images of Southern aristocracy with high-tech genius, hauntin
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Stefan Fatsis is a familiar figure to many as a regular commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. In 1997, when he decided to write about the world of competitive Scrabbl
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<B>The view from the Tsar's kitchen</B> In the turbulent early days of revolutionary Russia, Bolshevik agents herded the deposed Tsar Nicholai II, his family and aides into the basement
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While in high school in 1969, Mark Edmundson knew what he wanted from life.
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