Looking for clues about life after Enron? 9/11? Maybe Webvan? You won't find them here. Sure, James Gleick built his rep by wrestling with complexity: His book Chaos made the world safe for the new ...

532 pages. $27.50. Not only does James Gleick think Richard Feynman was a genius, he thinks he “was the most brilliant, iconoclastic, and influential physicist of modern times.” Considering the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Genius. By James Gleick. 532 pages. Pantheon. $27.50. Consider the ...

James Gleick’s publisher might be justified in billing him as America’s “leading chronicler of science and modern technology,” said Janet Maslin in The New York Times. With The Information, the ...

We'll have a conversation with James Gleick on his opus "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood." (Dave Pearson/Flickr) We live in the information age. We hardly understand yet what that fully ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. SCIENCE WRITER JAMES GLEICK, 40, is the author of the best seller ...

Gleick's earlier biography of physicist Richard Feynman, "Genius," made more of Feynman's irrepressible character as intrinsic to his ability to "do science," solving problems such as the failure of ...

Given its present ubiquity in popular culture, it might seem as if the notion of time travel has always been with us. Not so, asserts James Gleick in his new book, “Time Travel: A History.” “Time ...

Partway through “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood,” James Gleick describes a technological innovation so transformative that it was heralded as “one of the grand way-marks in the onward ...