Dave Eggers explains in The Guardian how he came to write What is the What, his recent novel that tells the story of the Sudanese Lost Boys, and of one ... Read More

At Midnight on July 21, J.K. Rowling will give a reading from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The reading will be attended by by 500 randomly selected fans, ... Read More

Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism: More than two hundred poems about the American experience of war—narratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, ... Read More

The history of Afghanistan is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And, yet, people find a way to survive, to go on. Ultimately, this is more than a ... Read More

AbeBooks.com claims to have the world's largest selection of books. They say that if you can't find it on their site, it probably doesn't exist - which in fact ... Read More

"Good things do come in small packages. In only 210 pages Sarah Shaber has created a tightly woven murder mystery, the fifth in the Simon Shaw series. This slim volume ... Read More

In the February 2007 issue of The Believer Magazine the editors asked readers to name the finest three works of fiction from 2006 which produced a list of the top ... Read More

Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns ... Read More

According to the Mexican critic Gabriel Zaid, writing in So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance, the human race publishes a book every 30 seconds. If ... Read More

The shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction has been announced. The contenders are: Murder in Amsterdam - about the murder of Dutch film make, Theo van Gogh. Imperial ... Read More