Christopher Paolini's Eldest was published last week to an expectant fan base, and the 21 year old author kicked off a book tour to 18 states and Canada. Paolini ... Read More

"Advocates, politicians, farmers, journalists, students, doctors, businesswomen, engineers, wives, and mothers - they are from all parts of Bosnia and represent the full range of ethnic traditions and mixed heritages. ... Read More

John Burdett's Bangkok 8 (2004) chronicles the adventures of Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a police detective in District 8 of the Royal Thai Police. Sonchai is a devout Buddhist, driven into the ... Read More

Lucky Parisians. They can now satisfy those late hour hankerings for a good book at five new vending machines around the city. The Livre à toute heure machines stock ... Read More

There's been a lot of talk lately about George W. Bush's vacation reading. Evidently, the press somehow learned that the President packed three heavy reads for his five week ... Read More

"Like a film written to be a summer blockbuster, supposed first-time novelist John Twelve Hawks' The Traveler has something for everyone: a strikingly beautiful, strikingly violent woman; a young black ... Read More

Yesterday, the judges for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced the longlist of 17 books for this year's prize. These 17 were chosen from 109 entries. The goal ... Read More

From the back page of today's New York Times Arts section:"Sunday, October 2, join thousands of New Yorkers in Bryant Park to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the New York ... Read More

Mark Helprin has authored numerous essays and short stories, three children's books, and several novels, the most celebrated of which are Winter's Tale (1983) and A Soldier of the Great ... Read More

John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a contemporary account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- what we call the Black Death, and what the generation who lived ... Read More