Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, and confusing notes --such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to ... Read More

Recently, The New Yorker devoted the entire back page to a single poem, "The Clerk's Tale," by Spencer Reece. The poet who drew such attention has a surprising background: for ... Read More

In a swift move to outwit those who would profit from pirating his new novel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has altered the final chapter of the book and pushed forward the ... Read More

In Gilad Elbom's Scream Queens of the Dead Sea, a young graduate of the Israeli army decides to moonlight as an assistant nurse at a mental institution in Jerusalem. ... Read More

Alan Hollinghurst was awarded the £50,000 Booker Prize today for his satire of 1980s Britain under Margaret Thatcher, The Line of Beauty. In The Line of Beauty, Hollinghurst's gay antihero, Nick ... Read More

In Daniel Hayes' darkly humorous debut novel, Evan Ulmer takes matters into his own hands after his writerly dreams of fame and recognition have stalled. He kidnaps renowned editor Robert ... Read More

2004 National Book Award Finalists were announced yesterday. There are five finalists in each of the National Book Award genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. The ... Read More

"If you like the comedy of Ellen DeGeneres, you'll like her latest book. Her first book, My Point…And I do Have One, spent six months on various bestseller lists. She ... Read More

The Giller Prize, Canada's premier literary prize for fiction, is awarded annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. Among the shortlist ... Read More

In Ronan Bennett's Havoc in its Third Year, a mid-seventeenth century coroner's sleuthing techniques are more akin to witchcraft than science, but the fear that dominates and directs the political ... Read More

The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Elfriede Jelinek "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic ... Read More

The Guardian Unlimited has just launched their poetry workshop. Each month, a new poet will present an exercise for readers to complete and submit. The poet-host will ... Read More

From Library Journal: "Amazon.com’s policy of allowing readers to post reviews of books might be a helpful feature for consumers, but for bestselling vampire author Anne Rice, it’s been ... Read More