Literature News

In two weeks, The New York Times will finally start publishing a comic strip - but not the three-panel kind.2.7

During Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge era of 1975-79, government leaders did their best to quash creativity and imagination by routinely executing intellectuals.2.7

The Penguin Group has purchased the English-language rights to China's best-selling novel, "The Wolf Totem," for a record $100,000. Jiang Rong's 2004 Chinese-language novel about the struggle for life on the ...3.4

From the journeys of Harry Potter and a handful of Hobbits to the locales of William Faulkner and Forbidden Planet, West Virginia Universitys 30 th Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film this month books ...

Storms, Hurricanes & Natural Disasters in Literature! When storms and disasters hit us with all that fury, it's hard to know how to react.2.7

A 15-year-old junior high school student and a 22-year-old office worker have been selected as the winners of the 42nd Bungei Prize for literature in Japan.4.1

To inhale Salman Rushdie's richly textured, exotic prose is to realize the insipid nature of most contemporary fiction.2.9

Author and teacher Joanne Dobson will present a four-part program on women mystery writers at the Ridgefield Library.2.9

Some high school students don't know Homer's "Iliad" from Homer Simpson or Plato from Pluto, but 18-year old Carmen Lara wants to change that.2.7

Each weekend, Luis Soriano and two heavily burdened donkeys traverse the hills and savannas of northern Colombia, where villages like El Dificil and El Tormento were aptly named for their rutted, tortuous ...2.9

The author of the best-selling No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels has revealed that what inspired him most as a child were "nasty" books.2.7

Can You Guess the Works On the Vintage List? Which classics are notable to be on a list of the top 100? And, then, which books should be considered of merit, of such quality or substance that they should be ...2.7

Next weekend, area readers will have reason to rejoice. After years of planning, hundreds of hours of effort and a few bumps in the road, the Park City Literary Festival will become a reality.2.7

"Sippur al ahava vehoshekh" by Amos Oz, translated into English by Nicholas de Lange, Harcourt, 544 pages, $17.16 As is his wont, Amos Oz found an elegant metaphor to describe the unprecedented success of his ...2.7

The American Classics: A Personal Essay by Denis Donoghue. Keith Gessen, Horror Tour Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Thomas Powers, ...2.7

To call Edmund Wilson the greatest American critic or our most dynamic man of letters doesn't begin to hint at the scope of his achievement.2.7

Warning: The Web browser you currently use may not display the Commentary Web site correctly.2.7

Rivers, streams and other bodies of water serve as a backdrop in the three novellas comprising Jim Harrison's latest work, The Summer He Didn't Die, and it is only fitting that they do.2.9

People from across the country will be asked to choose their favourite lesbian and gay novels later this month, as the hunt for the UK's top gay literature is launched.2.7

These are questions The History Channel seeks to answer from next month. Every Saturday at 10 pm it will air the show The Write Stuff.2.7

The paperback best seller Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini is not your typical doctor book.2.9

IT HAS taken six months, has included every library and bookshop in the country and has been endorsed by the culture minister.2.7

Reading is such a private and seemingly passive activity that no one gets credit for it.2.7

"Well, you need new tires, for one thing," Sussman says. "And you have no windshield washer ... After clinics at Fort Hood, Texas, and Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.2.9

PHOENIXVILLE - As business partners, Jason Hafer and Paul Oliver certainly agree that publishing on an Internet Website is one thing, but it's a real kick to print the written word on good old paper.3.2

THE notion of a holiday built around literature is a contradiction, which makes Dublin the right ... (So you could, if the Dublin you wished to rebuild was the now vanished Edwardian city that existed between dawn and midnight on June 16, 1904.2.7

Robert Hicks' debut novel, The Widow of the South, has some of the elements of a successful historical novel but not enough to save it.2.9

WORLD'S LONGEST NOVEL IN ARMENIAN By Karine Danielian AZG Armenian Daily #151, 26/08/2005 Literature Armen Shekoyan decided to write "The Armenian Time," the longest novel of the world.

STUDYING classical Greek literature would present a challenge to most scholars at any age but one student chose to tackle the works of Homer at 15 years old.2.7

The digital literature, branded Amazon Shorts, is priced at 49 cents per piece. The works include samples from new authors, or alternate chapters and scenes to well-known stories, one-act plays, classic short ...2.7

When I was a kid, one of my favorite television programs was "Foreign Intrigue." James Daly, as "Michael Powers," would emerge from some clinging Cold War fog, his trench coat loosely belted and his features ...2.7

I'm sceptical about software packages for writers, but that comes from years of trying to persuade my machine to write my column for me.2.7