As exciting as it sounds, this particular prequel to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series is not what you're imagining - no Star Wars-esque travel back to Godric's Hollow to track ... Read More

Each year at a series known as the Last Lecture, a Carnegie Mellon University faculty member is asked to deliver what would hypothetically be a final speech to their students ... Read More

The 2008 Olympics in Beijing are just two months away, and Tibetans around the world have escalated their protests against oppresive Chinese rule. According to the Tibetan government in exile, ... Read More

The Body in the Gallery is the latest in Katherine Hall Page's Fair Fairchild mystery series that over the course of its seven books has maintained the quality of its ... Read More

Gonzo-historian Tony Horwitz (Blue Latitudes, Confederates in the Attic) finds the national memory of the founding of the U.S. woefully incomplete and sets out to fill in the gaps. Following the ... Read More

A hilarious view into book publicity in the age of social networking from writer Dennis Cass.

The O. Henry Prize Stories series has an extensively proven track record (89 years) in the selection of terrific short prose, and the pieces in the 2008 volume uphold that ... Read More

Irish author and journalist Nuala O'Faolain died of cancer this past Friday. She was 68 years old. Well known internationally for her best-selling memoir, Are You Somebody? (1996), O'Faolain had ... Read More

Octopus-wrestling, vampire moths, and disaffected crows - oh my! I like David Quammen. More to the point, I want to be David Quammen. Back in the early 1980's, with neither ... Read More

If there was ever a novel that called for a sociological flow chart, Hold Tight, a community murder mystery, is it. Harlan Coben has constructed a yarn with multiple ... Read More

You'd think Stephen King would be smarter than to say something like this, but in a lecture at a Washington, DC high school the author told the audience, "If you ... Read More

Michael Chabon champions genre fiction in this collection of sixteen linked essays, exploring everything from Sherlock Holmes to Philip Pullman, from comic books to Norse myth. Maps and Legends is ... Read More

It appears Israeli writer Etgar Keret has a new book of short stories out entitled The Girl on the Fridge. He spoke with NPR about the book and Jellyfish, a ... Read More