Space historian’s new book on the American Space Program
Bruce McCandless III is a space historian and his dad did the first untethered space walk back in 1984. He and Emily Carney ...
Newbery medal for best children’s book is given to Erin Entrada Kelly’s ‘The First State of Being’
Erin Entrada Kelly’s “The First State of Being,” a coming-of-age story that blends time travel and the approaching millennium of the year 2000, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s ...
Atonement by Ian McEwan is a meditation on creativity in later life
In Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), aspiring writer 13-year-old Briony Tallis glimpses a world of opaque “adult emotion”.