MIT professor and author of “Einstein’s Dreams,” Alan Lightman, spent the evening of Nov. 9 engaging in an intimate conversation about the intersection of science and the arts. The event was ...

They say you can’t go home again, but in his new memoir, “Screening Room: Family Pictures,” Alan Lightman not only makes the journey, but turns it into a captivating narrative about his family and ...

It feels as if Alan Lightman has been forgetting large pieces of his past for decades; his reinvention seems intentional. This very talented 66-year-old writer and theoretical physicist has produced ...

Alan Lightman, an eminent physicist at MIT, recently (2013) published a wise and humane book called The accidental universe. Lightman is an atheist and he is not seduced by quantum physics, string ...

Not unlike its author, this collection is difficult to categorize. Lightman, a physicist and author of four acclaimed novels (The Diagnosis was a National Book Award finalist) as well as several books ...

Do Ho Suh, whose major survey exhibition in London opens this week, discusses the power of architecture and finding motivation from mistakes. By Emily Steer In “The Miraculous From the Material,” the ...

THE ENTREPRENEUR: Richard Lightman, age 83, who integrated his movie-theater chain with­out serious incident in the Jim Crow South of 1962. THE COMPANY: Malco Theatres Inc., based in Memphis, began in ...

(RNS) — Scientists and believers have had an uneasy relationship, often bordering on open hostility. Consider Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris. But there is one scientist who manages to write about the ...

In a franchise that features smooching siblings, aliens with names like Droopy McCool, and a music genre called jizz, you'd assume that anything goes. But that wasn't the case with one alien that was ...

Shopping centers, movie theaters, restaurants, bowling alleys, sports complexes. For six decades, people in Memphis and throughout the South have gathered for entertainment, recreation, meals and more ...