Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After World War II, with support from Albert Einstein, Eugen Merzbacher entered the United States from Turkey to pursue graduate ...

In “Children of Radium,” Joe Dunthorne explores the absurdity of family histories and his own clan’s complicated past. By Emma Brockes Emma Brockes is the author of “She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s ...

It seems like every family has a bit of ancestral folklore, and Joe Dunthorne’s is better than most, a tale of his great-grandfather Siegfried spiriting his family away from Nazi Germany in 1935, ...

In his third novel, The Adulterants, Joe Dunthorne captures the anxieties that come with being a British man in his 30s with the same accuracy, easy wit and telling detail he brought to his 2008 debut ...

The ending of Joe Dunthorne’s new novel, The Adulterants, is so good I had to go back and reread it immediately to try to figure out how he did it. So far, I have discerned only that his brilliant ...

Philip Larkin's bitter poem about the influence of our parents — "They [mess] you up, your mum and dad" — could be the epigraph of Joe Dunthorne's second novel, "Wild Abandon." But Dunthorne marinates ...

The novelist’s debut memoir, Children of Radium (Scribner, Apr.), uncovers how his great-grandfather, a Jewish chemist, ended up making weapons for the Nazis. What inspired you to write this book? I ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Dunthorne, a Channel 5 veteran who joined as part of billionaire Richard Desmond’s takeover a decade ago, is leaving the UK network’s parent company ViacomCBS. Dunthorne ran Desmond’s ...

The vast majority of book reviews are about newly released books. The focus on reviewing new books — and don’t get me wrong, the books I write about here are often new — is actually a little silly, ...

It's fair to say that the success of his début novel, Submarine, opened a string of doors for Swansea author Joe Dunthorne. Five years ago he was a creative writing graduate dreaming of getting ...

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Dunthorne, a Channel 5 veteran who joined as part of billionaire Richard Desmond’s takeover a decade ago, is leaving the UK network’s parent company ViacomCBS. Dunthorne ran Desmond’s ...