Does listening to an audiobook count as “reading” a book? Apparently this question is a common one in some book forums and recently The New York Times did a piece on the topic, quoting a few authors as saying they’d rather have their books read then listened to. So what’s …

He should explain his role in the Miller-Rove controversy.

Karl, First, I hope you don’t mind that I call you Karl but after I saw the movie about you – Bush’ Brain – I started feeling like I knew you. Of course that meant I had to shower each time I saw you on tv because of all the …

Shell Game: A Mallory Novel by Carol O’Connell Hooray, Mallory is back! Carol O’Connell has created a wonderful protagonist in Kathleen Mallory. She was adopted as a young girl by a police detective at a time when she was a thief and a liar. Now she’s a cop but too …

Satire alert: Reporter loses track of faction and fiction.

Faster, faster, faster! That sometimes seems to be the mantra of friends, colleagues and advertisers. Get a faster computer. Get a faster car. And it’s also, appropriately, the title of a book by James Gleick, an author with the rare gift of making the complicated not only interesting and easy …

This is a tale of two papers, one moving forward and one backward, one adapting and one retreating.

The movie looks back at the horrid life of the hijacker, which included seeing his mother murdered while a child.

The Party Is Over. Now Get Back To Work

In Geeks, Jon Katz has written a powerful, moving story with two unlikely heroes who call themselves geeks. But as Katz has explained in his writings for Slashdot.org, geek isn’t the insult it sometimes seems. In fact some of them consider it a compliment, he said. Most of the fascinating …