LH: Hello and welcome to TalkAsia, I'm Lorraine Hahn. My guest this week is British author Alan Hollinghurst, who won the prestigious Man Booker Prize with his latest novel, The Line of Beauty.

Illustrated London News, April 1865/National Portrait Gallery, S.I. "Bill of fare for the ball," 1865 Library of Congress ... glass roof over the courtyard by British architect Norman Foster ...

“Of the 12 men who slept in my squad room, 7 were ill at one time,” a ... Mertin, the young son of Ernest Elliot, is sick with pneumonia,...Most everybody over the country is having lagrippe ...

FOXBORO — Sometime before the Patriots drafted Ohio State running back TreVeyon Henderson early in Friday’s second round, their war room was split ... player personnel Eliot Wolf, head ...

There’s a room in a South Bay library where stars sparkle on the ceiling, fish and bubbles float in a glowing tube and a giant beanbag chair beckons from the floor. Welcome to the sensory room ...

Schenectady, NY — The Schenectady County Legislature has announced that renovations on the program room at the Niskayuna Branch Library will commence today and continue through May 30 ...

There’s a room in a South Bay library where stars sparkle on the ceiling, fish and bubbles float in a glowing tube and a giant beanbag chair beckons from the floor. You can step on tiles and ...

Kolkata is home to several historical buildings that are an integral part of the city’s heritage. Among them are a few reading rooms in libraries that date back as far as the 1800s. They have rare ...

In one corner of its dining room sits a modest 12-sided table ... and Mary Ann Evans became widely known as George Eliot. "We did not like to declare ourselves women," Charlotte Bronte wrote ...

and inviting non-academics into the library’s beautiful “Main Reading Room” for the first time. Monocle’s Chris Cermak met with Carla Hayden when tours of the Main Reading Room were being launched in ...

British Airways has confirmed that one of its cabin crew was found dead in his hotel room during an American stopover. The male crew member arrived in San Francisco from the UK on Tuesday.