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Businesses improve when they experiment with new structures and formulas — and then actively analyze their mistakes, Tim Harford says. In Adapt, his new book, the Financial Times columnist examines the merits of failure.

In Chiang Mai, food writer Eve Turow discovered a key to regional cooking: simplicity. Her favorite recipes showcase Thai mastery of the four basic tastes (sweet, salty, bitter and sour) while letting fresh ingredients shine. At home, she re-creates the dishes she fell in love with.

In his new novel, foreign affairs journalist David Ignatius describes America's covert operations on Pakistani soil. It's a topic that has come under much scrutiny in the weeks since al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a covert operation in Abbottabad.

It might sound like a topic for dusty academic journals, but taxidermy — at least the way Carl Akeley practiced it — was full of exotic safaris, brutal killing and bloody encounters with the very creatures he was trying to preserve. Akeley is the subject of Jay Kirk's new book, Kingdom Under Glass.

Most of us know that exercise is good for our health. But what about all the other ways we move during the day?

There are many other brands of chocolate-hazelnut spreads, and it can even be made at home. But for food writer Monica Bhide, there is only one Nutella. This sweet, cheerful reminder of her childhood inspires recipes and serving suggestions from fellow fans near and far.

The exotic aura of ancient Egypt has been the magic ingredient in all kinds of entertainment, from movies to pop songs. But when it comes to evoking the land of pyramids and pharaohs, it's tough to top Verdi's wartime romance.

He may have written this opera when he was just 18 years old, but Mozart shows us the method inside his characters' doubled madness.

Filmmaker Sofia Coppola's latest movie, Somewhere, is about an aimless Hollywood actor, played by Stephen Dorff, who re-examines his superficial life after a visit from his 11-year-old daughter. Coppola discusses the film -- and her relationship with her own father, Francis Ford Coppola.

Tchaikovsky felt the story of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin so deeply that it led him to both enter an ill-fated marriage — and write an opera.