Thomas Boswell on Why Baseball Is the Greatest Sport

Small Faces were contemporaries of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but never reached the same level of fame, in part because they failed to break onto U.S. charts. Rock historian Ed Ward says it's a shame -- they broke up soon after hitting their stride in 1968 -- but the members later found success with Humble Pie and Rod Stewart.

Winters' stand-up comedy of the 1950s and '60s was often improvised, and featured a variety of different characters, all of whom he gave a different voice. He has a new book of paintings called Hang-Ups.

Christa Wolf's new autobiographical novel juxtaposes the protagonist's worries over her brother's forthcoming brain surgery with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Book critic John Leonard says, despite the book's emotional darkness, Wolf's book is a flicker of light.