Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nutshell “Nutshell,” Ian McEwan’s preposterously weird little novel, is more brilliant than it has any right to be. The plot sounds like something sprung ...

There are more dumb Shakespeare adaptations on heaven and earth, dear readers, than are dreamed of in your performance studies seminars. So I approached Ian McEwan's fetal Hamlet with the healthy ...

An exhibit in Washington is taking visitors to The SCENE OF THE CRIME ... and though what you're about to see isn't real, some of the images ARE troubling. Erin Moriarty, who's covered many an actual ...

Twenty years ago, I read a novel narrated by a supermarket trolley. Now in principle I have no objection to novels narrated by supermarket trolleys but the success or failure of the book depended on ...

The idea for the extremely unusual narrator of Ian McEwan’s new novel “Nutshell” first came to him while he was chatting with his pregnant daughter-in-law. “We were talking about the baby, and I was ...

On Aug. 19, 1946, Dorothy Dennison left her house to walk to the local butcher’s shop. It was a Monday afternoon, and the high school student was on summer break. She arrived at the butcher’s shop ...

Burned Cabin (detail) by Frances Glessner Lee, about 1944-48 Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Chief Medical Examiner, Baltimore, MD Barn by Frances Glessner Lee, also known ...