HELLO GOODBYE HELLO: A CIRCLE OF REMARKABLE MEETINGS By Craig Brown Simon & Schuster, $26.95, 368 pages Something like this could so easily be just a gimmick, but it’s not too hard to spot one which ...

Someone who wasn’t a musician helped Paul McCartney write The Beatles‘ “Hello, Goodbye.” Paul wrote the song to express a positive message relating to a “deep theme of the universe.” Subsequently, ...

This deliciously clever and amusing book is an extended riff on that old chestnut of cocktail-party conversation, "Small world, isn't it?" or, of slightly more recent vintage, "Six degrees of ...