In his new book 'Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality,' a hybrid of theory and memoir, MIT physics professor and cosmologist Max Tegmark explains a version of reality made up entirely of math.(READ MORE)
Nathan Gelgud creates illustrations inspired by A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. (READ MORE)
This Christmas, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty hits theaters, adapted from a 1939 short story by James Thurber. Before escaping the dinner table for the cineplex, if you can get away with some light reading, you might consider Thurber's pseudo-autobiography My Life and Hard Times.(READ MORE)
Nathan Gelgud illustrates his interpretation of Stéphane Gerson's biography of Nostradamus, Renaissance physician-astrologer and "prophet of doom." (READ MORE)
Next week, moviegoers will catch up with their favorite diminutive adventurer Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. They might begin the journey with Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author who created the universe of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in his original...(READ MORE)
For their new Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, out this week, the Coen Brothers looked to Dave Van Ronk's memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street for inspiration. (READ MORE)
Join Chris Elliott on his absurdist romps in The Guy Under the Sheets: The Unauthorized Autobiography, just released in paperback. (READ MORE)
Leonard S. Marcus compiles an oral biography of writer Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and dozens of other books, in Listening for Madeleine.(READ MORE)
This holiday movie season, you can look forward to The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, and prepare by picking up Scorsese by Ebert, a great book on the director by Roger Ebert.(READ MORE)
In Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, the classical conductor and first-time biographer John Eliot Gardiner analyzes that music, the era in which it was composed, and Bach’s own writings to bring his subject to light.(READ MORE)
