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The Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright wrote about the struggle by her generation to balance professional and family life. A new biography sheds light on the links between Wasserstein's life and the characters she created.

Napoleonic Wars? The Royal Navy? Yawn. Novelist Nicola Griffith had low expectations when she started reading Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. But soon she was tearing through the 20-volume series, reveling in the deeply rendered friendship between the characters Jack and Stephen. It's a masterpiece, she says: "Jane Austen on a ship of war."

Private Life, the new novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley, follows the life of a midwestern woman who moves with her new husband, an astronomer, to California at the start of the 20th century. Reviewer Maureen Corrigan says the story, which spans a half-century, is beautifully observed.

Jane Campion's Western plays out like a tightly wound psychological thriller, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as one of the scariest characters you're likely to meet this year.

The demand for nurses is soaring, but it isn't easy to get into nursing school these days because there aren't enough teachers.

After a weekend of U.S. air strikes targeting Iranian-backed militias, Iraq buries fighters killed in the attacks, as pressure grows for U.S. withdrawal.

The war in Gaza has brought Sunni and Shiite armed groups closer together in Lebanon. Many there fear that fighting on its border with Israel could drag the country into war.

Israel has struck a building in a residential neighborhood in Beirut in the deadliest attack on the capitol in almost two decades. The Israeli military said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander.

The war in Gaza is more than nine months old. Fears are growing that ongoing cross-border strikes between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah could escalate into all-out war in the north as well.

Widad Kawar, 94, started collecting Palestinian dresses when she was a child in Jerusalem and founded a museum dedicated to Palestinian embroidery. She talks about what has been lost and what endures.