A review of Tom Standage’s “A Brief History of Motion” and David Rooney’s “About Time” delves into our concern with moving faster and checking our clocks.

When a popular book becomes a major motion picture publishers change the cover art, or at the very least put a big red sticker one it. The Martian has Matt Damon's face on half of the editions at ...

*Poet Laureate Andrew Motion pulled no punches (and spoke for countless writers) when he called Gary McKeone's departure from the Arts Council "intensely stupid, wasteful and just plain wrong" at ...

“Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces” by Patrick Mackie (Macmillan Publishers). Writing a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nowadays is no easy task. The daunting list of ...