Topic: Lewis Carroll

Sendak's closest friends near at deathbed (+video)

They had fond memories of the legendary children's-book author, who died at 83.

Wendell Berry: New Collected Poems

"New Collected Poems" allows the playful, musical side of Wendell Berry's being to shine through.

The next 'Potter'? 'Hunger Games' takes kids to darker, more violent place.

The buzz over the 'Hunger Games' movie suggests a new blockbuster young-adult franchise is being born. But the coming-of-age tale set in a fascist future has less humor than 'Potter.'

'A Wrinkle in Time' 50 years later

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Madeleine L'Engle classic "A Wrinkle in Time."

Lewis Carroll: 10 favorite quotes on his birthday

10 quotes from the 'Alice in Wonderland' author on his 180th birthday.

Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms, by Carmela Ciuraru

Carmela Ciuraru takes a playful look at the history of pen names and the reasons authors use them.

The Alice Behind Wonderland

Simon Winchester examines the story behind the discomforting photo taken of the little girl who inspired “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

Hayek and Keynes debating in Wonderland

Classic economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich August Hayek have a spirited policy debate, in the style of Lewis Carroll.

Junk car or work of art? Supreme Court declines free speech fight.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take the case of a Texas businessman who says a 1988 Oldsmobile in front of his store is art, not subject to a city junk-vehicle ordinance.

The Netflix and the Blockbuster (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)

A classic poem is used to illustrate an amazing modern stock saga.

Young adult Christian literature gets the nod from Slate

Christian-themed novels for teens are seen as "a surprisingly empowering guide to adolescence."

Micmacs: movie review

Micmacs, a crazily inventive French film, has a freneticism that will eventually draw you in.

Bestselling books the week of 4/1/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 3/25/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 3/18/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Photoshop and Facebook, Victorian-style

Long before Photoshop and Facebook, upper-crust British ladies were cropping and splicing with giddy abandon and drawing spider webs inhabited with the pasted-on faces of their friends.

Bestselling books the week of 3/11/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.

Through the literary looking glass with "Alice in Wonderland"

Will there ever be another heroine with the staying power of Alice?

Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

HBO’s World War II blockbuster ‘The Pacific,’ Norah Jones’s new tour, ‘Up in the Air’ on DVD, and more.

Alice in Wonderland: movie review

In Tim Burton’s hybrid ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ Johnny Depp plays a gentlemanly Mad Hatter to a very grown-up Alice.

Bestselling books the week of 2/25/10, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best in independent bookstores all across America.

Ten best movies of the decade

The best of the decade include foreign fare and some American classics such as ‘Sideways’ and ‘No Country for Old Men.’

Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

Norah Jones's latest CD, a contemporary 'Alice in Wonderland' on the Syfy Channel, acclaimed Pixar-animated movie shorts on ABC, and more.

Trailer of Burton's 'Alice' (briefly) hits the Web. Wonderment ensues.