Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity! In 1998, he founded McSweeney's, an independent publishing house located in San Francisco and in 2002 he opened 826 Valencia, a writing lab for young people located in the Mission District of...

In his latest book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, Francis Wheen evokes the key personalities of the post-political era - including Princess Diana, Osama Bin-Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologer - while charting the extraordinary rise in superstition and...

Colm T?ib?n's fiction includes:
The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize.
His non-fiction includes:
Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross and Love in a Dark Time. In The...

John Lahr has been senior drama critic for The New Yorker since 1992.

A veteran of all aspects of the theatre, Lahr is the son of the actor Bert Lahr, whom he immortalised in his best-selling biography, Notes on a Cowardly Lion. Lahr has published seventeen books on the theatre, and...

For nearly half a century Vevgeny Yevtushenko has been a piercing voice of conscience and today he is among the world's most widely admired living writers. Born in Zima, Yevtushenko moved to Moscow in 1944. His first important narrative poem Zima Junction was published in 1956 but he gained...