AMES, Iowa — Beloved on both sides of the pond for his writing, which is impossible to dislike, Iowa's own Bill Bryson will speak at Iowa State University. Bryson's talk, "At Home and Abroad," will be ...

One of the many perquisites of practicing medicine at Saint Louis University has been the opportunity to participate in a medicine and literature program. Roughly once a month, the participants are ...

The words "boxed set," like "leather interior" and "estate bottled," are strangely agreeable. They smack of the good life: opulence, sophistication and celebration. What is more, in an increasingly ...

Upon learning of Bill Bryson’s new Shakespeare (The Illustrated and Updated Edition), I felt momentarily confused. Had that witty writer of felicitous English prose already composed a new Shakespeare ...