AT&T will no longer be calling on Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods loses first sponsorship The company announced Thursday that it would no longer sponsor Woods, according to The Associated Press. AT&T joins Accenture in dropping Woods, who is taking a break from golf to focus on his marriage...

British columnist Lynn Barber’s memoir, An Education, is about her affair, while she was still in high school, with an older con man. She spent weekdays prepping for Oxford and weekends flying off to European cities with her lover. Barber, who was happy with the movie adaptation of the...

Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? is a book like no other. It is composed entirely of questions, some of them are laugh-out-loud funny, others provoke memories of long gone times, while some leave you pondering the meaning of life. » E-Mail...

Reports that Van Morrison had become a father again at 64 resulted from a hoax apparently because the singer’s website was hacked, according to Agence France-Press. Morrison said in a statement Thursday that the post stating that he fathered a child, George Ivan Morrison III, with...

Robert Siegel talks with two guests about how recorded music has changed in the past decade. First, mastering engineer Bob Ludwig explains how recordings have gotten louder and worse. Then Robert talks Andrew Oxenham, a professor in the Psychology department at the University of Minnesota,...