Haruki Murakami's latest novel, 1Q84, will be released in Japan Friday to great anticipation. Everything but the title of the work has been kept secret, and Murakami's public is responding ... Read More

Today, Canadian short story writer Alice Munro won the third Man Booker International Prize, a £60,000 award presented every two years to an author for an exceptional body of of ... Read More

Each year since 1919, the O. Henry Prizes have been awarded to some of the previous year's most outstanding short fiction. Edited by Laura Furman, The PEN / O. Henry ... Read More

Soft Spots is the firsthand account of one Marine's attempt to re-enter life after experiencing it in its most barbaric form for five months in Iraq in 2003. Van Winkle's ... Read More

It may look like a giant iPod Nano, but it’s actually Cool-er, the e-book reader that, at 5.6 oz. and $250, is poised to give Amazon's Kindle a run for ... Read More

In Born to Be Good, Dacher Keltner marries Eastern notions of kindness and reverence with evolutionary science in order to get at the answer to three salient questions: How can ... Read More

On Tuesday night, the East Room of the White House saw poets, playwrights, musicians, and actors read, play, and perform in what may be the first ever White House poetry ... Read More

Photo by Joe Raedle Sarah Palin signed a deal with HarperCollins to publish a memoir of her personal and political life, from her Alaskan childhood and family life to the ... Read More

As one of the endorsements points out, Meg Wolitzer is a social observer of Tom Wolfe-ian status, and her writing style mimics his to a tee. The Ten-Year Nap includes ... Read More

Laila Lalami has been a novelist, short story writer, and translator. I got to know her from the blog she began shortly after 9/11, Moorish Girl, which she has since ... Read More

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Duke University Press plans to publish an edited version of the anthropology dissertation completed by the President's mother, S. Ann Dunham, in 1992 at the University of Hawaii. Dunham's daughter, Maya ... Read More

In his outstanding debut story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower captures a variety of experience that is as far-ranging as it is close to home. These stories ... Read More