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Move over, James Joyce and all the other pretenders. The new owner of the record for the longest sentence in published literature is Mathias Enard for his 517-page French novel "Zone." In fact, the entire ...

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British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter - who produced some of his generation's most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq - has died, his widow said Thursday.

Harold Pinter, universally acclaimed as one of the greatest British playwrights of his generation, has died.

In this new release, the American University in Cairo Press, offers a brief overview of Tawfiq Al-Hakim , one of the Arab world's most renowned playwrights.

As economic worries cloud holiday shopping, toymakers say parents are buying classics like Lincoln Logs for their children.

Visions of Sugarplums: The puppet Nutcracker battles the Mouse King at The Puppet Co.

David Damrosch, an American professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, visited Turkey last week for a panel discussion series on a oeWorld Literature in Betweena organized by A ...

The Newbery Medal has been the gold standard in children's literature for more than eight decades.

In its formative years, the medium drew extensively from both. In latter years, as the medium took on a more definitive shape that was autonomous of those influences, it began to affect those mediums that had ...

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One of the senior literature program consultants from Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, the leading provider of print and digital educational materials for middle and secondary students, recently studied adolescent boys and ...

Hometown News/LYNN ATKINS Beverly Garside, a member of the Friends of the Rogers Public Library, examined gently used books after listening to a presentation by librarians about giving books as gifts.

Last week the New York Times released its list of "100 notable" books of 2008. Two North Carolina books made the list.

Of all the things in the world that could possibly be used as inspiration for any sort of video game, the last thing you might expect Electronic Arts to fall back on is Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy .

Nicole FáLon Garrett's successes always seem to come with a small twist, as if fate just needed to tweak her plan.

Obituary Dorothy Porter Poet. Born Sydney, March 26, 1954. Died Melbourne, December 8, age 54.

Dorothy Sterling, a significant figure in 20th century children's literature for her well-researched portrayals of historical black Americans written decades before multiculturalism became mainstream, died Dec.

School officials are distancing themselves today from the actions of the New Rochelle High School's English department staff, which reportedly tore out pages of a literature book used in a senior class because ...