Topic: Tom Wolfe

Culture Cafe Anne Hathaway earns early praise for 'Les Miserables'

Anne Hathaway is being called a sure thing for an Oscar nomination by critics who have seen the movie 'Les Miserables.' Anne Hathaway stars as struggling single mother Fantine.

Bestselling books the week of 11/22/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 11/15/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

Bestselling books the week of 11/8/12, according to IndieBound*

What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.

Editor's Blog How poor is poor? How rich is rich?

Everyone from the US Census Bureau to the United Nations has a definition of poverty. A reasonable income is unquestionably important. But income alone doesn't determine whether someone is poor. Or rich. 

10 best books of October, according to Amazon's editors

Sara Nelson, editorial director of books and Kindle for Amazon.com, talks about the 10 books chosen by Amazon editors as the best of October, 2012.

Chapter & Verse Why is Paulo Coelho slamming James Joyce?

Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho says of Joyce's book 'Ulysses,' 'There is nothing there.'

John Glenn reflects on NASA's space legacy 50 years after first orbit

On Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn piloted NASA's Mercury capsule, known as Friendship 7, three times around Earth, matching the groundbreaking achievement of the rival Soviet Union, which launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit 10 months earlier.  

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place: movie review

A hippie trip pieced together from rough footage, 'Magic Trip' may have limited appeal for the general public.

The astronaut who learned how to see

Story Musgrave flew on six space shuttle missions -- and on every one of the shuttles that NASA is retiring this year. In a career of standout performances, he never forgot to savor the experience.

Kenyan whistleblower commemorated in a book

A Kenyan whistleblower who exposed the largest financial scandal in Kenya is the subject of the book, 'The True Story of David Munyakei,' which will be showcased next week in the US.

Opinion: What Facebook’s pro-rape group says about our culture of sexual assault

It should not come as a shock that university students in Australia thought they could get away with creating a Facebook group that explicitly condoned rape. After all, they live in a culture that implicitly does the very same thing.

Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

Forty years later, another look at man’s first walk on the moon.

'The book was better': Movies that didn't measure up

Christopher Buckley and the oddities of truth

Opinion: The next big thing in journalism

At BusinessWeek, we're engaging our readers in new ways. Here's what we've learned.

Remembering the 'war' years

Steve Martin's new memoir, 'Born Standing Up,' is a thorough analysis of the thought processes that helped the Texas-born comic take his banjo and his balloon animals, and turn them into the biggest draw of the 1970s.

Opinion: Looking for real virtue in literature

Fiction should reject solipsistic preoccupations and examine the world at large.