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Byline: Joseph Rosenheim Why not legalize drugs - all drugs - for addicts? It's not a new idea, but amid the unending debate over how existing laws should be enforced, [...]

Byline: Emma Rosenheim Sophomore Emma Rosenheim discusses climate anxiety and the impact of climate change on mental health. - Photo via Pixabay.com Death. This is the sole comfort that Rachel [...]

Byline: Joe Rosenheim With the nation's drug problem attracting huge media attention, and having spent 11 years addicted to opiates myself (now three years clean), I've increasingly come to consider [...]

Byline: Andrew Rosenheim A Moveable Feast: the Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway 256PP, CAPE, £17.99 T £15.99 (PLUS £1.25 P&P) 0844 871 1515 ** Next year marks the 50th anniversary [...]

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo 528pp, Chatto & Windus, pounds 17.99 T pounds XX (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4112 Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo 528pp, Chatto [...]

Seminary Boy by John Cornwell 402pp, Fourth Estate, pounds 15.99 T pounds 13.99 (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4112 At first glance, John Cornwell's Seminary Boy would seem to [...]

Imperium by Robert Harris 416pp, Hutchinson, pounds 17.99 T pounds 15.99 (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4112 Robert Harris is a bestselling writer whose first three novels were patronised [...]

The Letters of Robert Lowell ed by Saskia Hamilton 852pp, Faber & Faber, pounds 30 T pounds 26 (plus pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 1557222 Robert Lowell enjoyed a celebrity that [...]

IF A biographer's empathy can be inherited, then Richard Sewall was well placed to understand the New England context of his one great subject, the poet Emily Dickinson. For the [...]

The Future of the Past: how the information age threatens to destroy our cultural heritage Alexander Stille Picador pounds 15.99, 339pp pounds 13.99 (plus pounds 1.99 p&p) from 0870 8001122 [...]

WELL-HEELED Easterners seeking health cures made Santa Barbara famous in the 1880's; they were soon followed by robber barons and industrialists tired of New England winters, who in turn attracted […]

IT IS A FINE SEPTEMBER DAY IN the farmlands of Vermont, but Errol Morris is unhappy. Only a short drive away lives the Rat Man of Peru, an eccentric about […]

American writer Norman Mailer shot to fame at the age of just 25 with his first novel 'The Naked and the Dead' but despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Armies of the Night' in 1968, he is famous less as a writer than as a figure. Mailer is approaching his 75th birthday yet has not lost the intense ambition that characterised 'The Naked and the Dead.' His latest book, his 30th, has enraged much of America because it purports to be a fictional account of Jesus told in Jesus' own words.

Cartoonist Herbert Block, known as Herblock, was born in Chicago, IL, in 1909. He began his working life as a police reporter at the City News Bureau and then studied at Lake Forest College. He became a cartoonist at the age of 19.

Poet Archie Ammons was born in Whiteville, NC, in 1926. He studied science at Wake Forest before attending graduate school in English at Berkeley. He published his first collection himself in 1955.

Writer Mario Puzo grew up in Hell's Kitchen in New York, NY. He developed an interest in writing at an early age, but family financial problems forced him to work as a railroad clerk. He served abroad during the second world war, and then studied at the New School in New York and at Columbia. He worked as a civil servant, but wrote stories for magazines. His first novel, 'Dark Arena,' was published in 1955. He became most well known for 'The Godfather,' published in 1969.

Journalist Brendan Gill studied at Yale University and then began contributing short stories to the New Yorker. He was appointed a staff writer at the age of 22, and retained that position for more than 61 years. He soon established a niche as a non-fiction writer, and was particularly talented at rewriting. He was mainly interested in social and architectural subjects, but also wrote several biographies. The best of these is probably 'Many Masks,' his life of Frank Lloyd Wright.

I started taking the Amazonian psychedelic ayahuasca two years ago because I had an 11-year addiction to heroin I couldn't shake. Over the years, I went to rehab four times, drifted between jobs, wandered in and out of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and tried opiate substitute drugs like Suboxone. The end result was a cliche of the downtrodden: living in the streets of San Francisco, shooting heroin and smoking crack, sleeping under a church doorway and, at times, in a jail cell. Nothing catalyzed me to go a different way, until I sobered up and found ayahuasca. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HARD though it may be to remember, many people supported the decision to go to war in Iraq. I can remember it well -- because I was one of them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TODAY is the fifth anniversary of the Paddington rail crash, in which 31 people died and hundreds were injured after a commuter train drove through a red light and into an Intercity express. Starting here, and continuing tomorrow, survivor Andrew Rosenheim tells the gripping and moving story of the price he paid for escaping one of Britain's worst railway disasters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Provides information on the series `Interrotron Stories' by Errol Morris. Hurdles in the broadcast; Success of the film `The Thin Blue Line'; Details of a series for television by Morris; Award of `genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation in 1989; Views on interpretation of events; Speculations on the offer by Britain's Channel Four and financing by American network.