Michael Crichton has been called to testify before the United States Senate on the issue of global warming. He was summoned by Senator James Inhofe (R. Oklahoma), who has ... Read More

Ali Smith's Booker-shortlisted novel, The Accidental, is a story about a girl, a stranger named Amber, who turns up at the door of an English country house and the enormous ... Read More

Reversing a 2003 decision to feature only the classics, Oprah's Book Club has broadened its scope to include contemporary works, as well as those proven by the test of time. ... Read More

Neil Gaiman embarks today on a U.S. and Canadian book tour for his new novel, Anansi Boys, released today. I spoke with Neil by phone about the novel and ... Read More

Nuala O'Faolain, the author of Are You Somebody and Almost There, the Irish woman writer who achieved international fame with a remarkably candid appraisal of her own unorthodox life, has ... Read More

Liev Schreiber's film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated opened today in New York and Los Angeles to mixed reviews. While the cinematrography is purportedly striking (set ... Read More

Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk, is currently being charged with insulting the Turkish Republic with statements published in a Swiss newspaper on February 6, 2005. Referring to the killings of ... Read More

There's an excellent piece in this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine comparing and contrasting two eclectic and experimental culture/literary magazines, The Believer and n+1. DISCUSSED: Ben Kunkel, Slavoj Zizek, The ... Read More

"The last several years have seen an explosion of books that take a limited subject and demonstrate how it is central to the natural world or human experience. Written for ... Read More

The Man Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. It is not only ... Read More

First Book, a nonprofit that puts books in the hands of children from low-income families, is giving books to kids affected by Hurricane Katrina. First Book is one of ten finalists ... Read More

American Gods author, Neil Gaiman, is consistently posting the mail he receives from many of his Katrina-impacted readers on his blog. Gaiman's blog is currently ranked number 61 out ... Read More

About.com's Hurricane Katrina coverage page has links to family and friend connection sites, hurricane forums, articles, and photos. Most importantly, it has a HUGE list of links to disaster ... Read More