For three decades, crime novelist Don Winslow followed a simple routine: He'd rise at dawn each day to begin writing by 5:30 a.m.
Twenty-five books later, most of them crime novels, many of them acclaimed, Winslow announced he was done. "City In Ruins," the just-published final book in his Danny
It is often said that Edith Hall is to Greece what Mary Beard is to Rome. Over a long career, each has made extraordinary contributions to classical scholarship: Hall in theatre, philosophy, ethnicity and education; Beard in the history and religion of the Roman Republic and early Empire. Both have raised the profile of a once beleaguered subject; neither shows the slightest sign of slowing down.