Laurel Maury is a contributor to Book Review and an editorial assistant at the New Yorker. THE British are delicious when they misbehave. Not that they do it better than anyone else, but when the ...

Huntington Beach, CA – Westnet LLC, the industry leader in fire station alerting and dispatch systems, is excited to announce the appointment of David Nokes as its Chief Executive Officer and the ...

“Samuel Johnson: A Life” (Henry Holt and Company, 432 pages, $30), by David Nokes: David Nokes, a prominent scholar of 18th-century English literature, takes a fresh look at Samuel Johnson, the man ...

Born in London, into a family with strong connections to Aberdeenshire, his Scottish roots remained a central part of his character and he was buried with his parents in their Aberdeenshire grave. He ...

Virginia Woolf laid down the challenge in 1928: “We have lives enough of Jane Austen.” No matter, two new biographies have arrived this autumn raising the question of when yet another story of the ...

A private investment firm has purchased a stake in a local technology company that could mean additional local jobs in the next few years. Polaris Growth Fund recently made what is described as a ...

Voters in southwest Springfield will have a choice this April between City Council candidates with starkly different views and approaches to city government, as retired SPD police officer David Nokes ...

A small fire in a Newport Beach hair salon Friday afternoon created a traffic snarl on West Coast Highway and put a crimp in the scheduling for some neighboring hair parlors. Six hair salons and other ...

Emergency Reporting® (ER), the global leader in secure, cloud-based reporting and records management software (RMS) for fire and EMS agencies, recently released new features and resources in response ...

David Nokes, a prominent scholar of 18th-century English literature, takes a fresh look at Samuel Johnson, the man known as the creator of the dictionary. In doing so, Nokes shows a very human side of ...

“Samuel Johnson: A Life” (Henry Holt and Company, 432 pages, $30), by David Nokes: David Nokes, a prominent scholar of 18th-century English literature, takes a fresh look at Samuel Johnson, the man ...