Lucy. Mary. Hawkeye. Norm. Kramer. Homer. To borrow from the "Cheers" theme song, everybody knows the names of these classic situation comedy characters. In "Sitcom," Saul Austerlitz shows how these ...

The turning point in W.G. Sebald’s latest novel, “Austerlitz,” comes when the title character wanders into the disused Ladies Waiting Room at the Liverpool Street Station in London sometime in the ...

The sitcom is an endangered species. Nielsen reported that just one sitcom was among the top ten regularly scheduled programs last year—and even this was unusual. And unlike in the past, when popular ...

(Reuters) - Cannons roared and horses' hooves pounded across the battlefield on which French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte won one of his most famous victories as hundreds of people took part in a ...

A Jewish scholar crisscrosses Europe as he searches for his forgotten past, with the journey taking him to the edge of his limits. The book is considered one of the most important works of post-WWII ...