Derek Walcott

NEW YORK — Robert Giroux, a giant of 20th Century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday. He was 94. Mr. Giroux, who helped...

Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning. He was 94. Giroux, who helped...

Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th-century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early yesterday. He was 94. Giroux, who helped create...

Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning. He was 94. Giroux, who helped...

Robert Giroux, a giant of 20th century publishing who guided dozens of great writers such as T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep Friday morning. He was 94. Mr. Giroux, who helped create one of the most notable publishing houses...

Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning. He was 94. Giroux, who helped...

Sister Nuala Ryan's shoes are wet with dew when she walks into the rec center. The place isn't much to look at, all cinder-block walls, dusty curtains, a deflated balloon that's been hanging from a ceiling vent for as long as anyone can remember. Church...

The Lost Books of the Odyssey A Novel Zachary Mason Starcherone Books: 228 pp., $16 paper No-Man's Lands One Man's Odyssey Through "The Odyssey" Scott Huler Crown: 286 pp., $24.95 "In fact," writes Zachary Mason, as if anyone could doubt him,...

LIVERPOOL The Beatles and much, much more With a little help from his friends, Ringo Starr is set to launch Liverpool's reign at opening ceremonies on Jan. 12. Ringo will headline "Liverpool the Musical" at the brand-new Liverpool Arena. Not to be...

Do you believe in God? What will happen to you at death? Do you pray? Do you think religious believers are deluded? Many people would hesitate to raise these questions at dinner. Director Antonio Monda, on the other hand, has been posing them for several...

"If the world had any ends," Aldous Huxley wrote in 1934, Belize — then known as British Honduras — "would certainly be one of them. It is not on the way from anywhere to anywhere else. It has no strategic value. It is all but uninhabited."...

Winners of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1960: * __ * 2005: Harold Pinter, Britain. * 2004: Elfriede Jelinek, Austria. * 2003: J.M. Coetzee, South Africa. * 2002: Imre Kertesz, Hungary. * 2001: V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born Briton. *...