These few examples are reflective of the type of thought-provoking and practical topics Ben touches on in his writing.

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But it is so much faster that it has the power to reshape companies, create communities, eliminate geography, and revitalise the art of letter writing in a generation which had been thought to have been rendered incapable of it by television.

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When White moved to France in 1983 through a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for writing, he thought he was escaping this new disease, at least for a while.

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This Chinese company had been doing business with this American company for over four years, and during these four years, the Chinese company thought there was mutual trust and therefore did not ask for the contract to be in writing.

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Carver thought so, and he got busy writing a book called Collective Electrodynamics, published by MIT Press in 2000.

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In the 1970s, when Ms Showalter herself started writing about women's literature, many critics thought they had to counter this trend with feminist polemic.

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