Hermann Hesse

Cricket Radio Tuning In the Night-Singing Insects John Himmelman Belknap/Harvard University Press: 260 pp., $22.95 "The game is to listen," Rachel Carson wrote in 1956 of the night-singing insects. "Not so much to the full orchestra, as to the...

What do you need to be happy? A big life, great art or just a good suppository? These questions haunt “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” Charles Busch’s undemanding comedy now at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. Middle-aged......

Artist Daniela Comani remakes classic book covers by inverting the gender. Mr. Dalloway, anyone?...

When the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe...

Becoming Animal An Earthly Cosmology David Abram Pantheon: 310 pp., $26.95 David Abram's first book, "The Spell of the Sensuous," was one of those rare, mind-altering books (an Aldous Huxley or Hermann Hesse on the literary Richter scale — and...

Three Allentown men looking for a fight brutally attacked and killed a Kutztown University sophomore walking on the borough's busiest street early Friday to get back to his dorm room, authorities said. Kyle G. Quinn, 19, of Warminster Township, Bucks...

Young people are constantly being warned that the information they include in their Facebook profiles could eventually come back to haunt them. Photographs of bacchanalian escapades, catastrophic sartorial decisions or intimate moments with toothless,...

Film fans, prepare for a busy, gratifying fall. In addition to the spate of remakes, sequels and prequels at the cineplex, the art-house calendar might as well be wrapped in a celluloid ribbon. Dates have yet to be finalized in most cases, but there are...

Academic "ologies" can be as fatal for sci-fi fantasy movies as "isms" are for politics. The Matrix Reloaded, the second in the Matrix trilogy, wastes much of the goodwill of the first movie in gaseous speeches about theology, ontology, mythology - any...