Topic: Claire Messud
Claire Messud, the best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, discovers the grown-up pleasures of her adolescent playground April 2008 | By Claire Messud . A clash of cultures at Boston's City Hall in 1976 symbolized the city's years-long confrontation with the ...
In 1830, a brutal crime in Massachusetts riveted the nation-and inspired the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne November 2010 | By E.J. Wagner . Back from the brink of extinction, the beavers of Massachusetts are a crucial component of a ...
THE EMPEROR 'SCHILDREN by Claire Messud Picador, This, Claire Messud's fourth book, is a splendid American novel, contemporary yet historical, with an avalanche of characters flowing across the world from Australia to Manhattan to small-town America and to Florida. Sometimes he ...
Surprisingly, no one caught wind of this early, but Slate editor Jacob Weisberg has apparently signed on to write a biweekly column for Newsweek. Like Mr. Weisberg's long-running on-again-off-again Slate columnwhich last appeared in January, and has not been a regular ...
