After the Yardbirds broke down and were promotionally reconstituted by Jimmy Page as the "New Yardbirds," that is Led Zeppelin, vocalist Keith Relf formed a duo with ex-'Bird Jim McCarty. Shortly they expanded the concept into the folk-rock-classical band Renaissance, which also fell apart before becoming much more famous in a second incarnation with vocalist Annie Haslam. Relf would go on to
The Same Man: George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War, David Lebedoff. Random House, 264 pp., $26. David Lebedoff has pulled off a literary hat trick. It isn't possible to find two 20th-century literary peers who, at
A local author recently penned a mystery novel which is set during biblical Jerusalem. "Catacombs" by Larry Massa, of Linton, is a fictional tale about a treasure hunt for the lost tombs of Melchizedek.
At the heart of Ron Suskind's story about the Bush administration and the Iraq war, is a potentially existential threat to the United States in the here and now.
Seven years after the terrible terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and on the Pentagon the time has come to study those events dispassionately, to find out what really happened, and to see whether the response to that tragedy has been a correct one, or whether we could have followed a different path. -Farhang Jahanpour
You are standing of a summer’s day on a lovely beach, and you are doing what millions of others just out of eyeshot are doing. You are looking at the sand squiggling between your toes. You are perusing the broken shells just beyond your toes and the foamy wavelets curling against the shore nearby.
It was the week the world was supposed to end. Only it didn’t – or at least it hasn’t yet. PAUL ROWLAND explains why we were right to be scared of the Large Hadron Collider – but only to a point
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Readers weigh in on the hopes and fears generated by the world's largest atom-smasher. Two words of advice: Don't panic!