Literature News

Confirming rumors, Barnes & Noble's Kahala Mall bookstore will close when its lease expires in January 2014.

A homeschooling mother of three, Alana Terry penned her debut Christian novel The Beloved Daughter and went on to win second place in the Women of Faith writing contest.

A Portsmouth resident's 1993 hypertext novel will be studied under a National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to the Electronic Literature Organization , the group announced on their Web site last Friday.

While in Cluj to be awarded the doctor honoris causa degree of the Babes-Bolyai University, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa continued the public dialogue started eight years ago with his Romanian publisher, philosopher Gabriel Liceanu.

Music is filled with surprises. For every good-looking rebel working diligently to bring sexy back, there's a bookish nerd sitting in a dim corner furiously scribbling esoteric poetry in a lyrics journal.

The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg and Hart Crane .

Recently. as a requirement for a literature symposium. I was forced to read a number of "great" late 19th Century short stories, most of which were far from great, much less enjoyable.

Coco Ramazani's life is the subject of the book "Tell This to My Mother." The Manchester woman, who escaped from a military camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is HIV-positive and wants to get her story out before she dies.

"I retired several years ago from teaching high school. I still sub. On Monday I was supposed to supervise peer editing of a research paper on the Industrial Revolution.

Too bad the 1926, silent version of "The Great Gatsby," filmed only a year after F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book, is missing.

As a subgenre, a movement, a fashion statement, steampunk has worn a dozen garments and none of them fit exactly the same.

Investment management is supposed to be built on brilliant minds' novel insights and innovative approaches - or so our training and traditions have led us to believe.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office has issued a request for information seeking feedback from interested stakeholders regarding the use of rotating disk electrode experiments and best practices for experimental conditions for characterization of the activity and durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cell oxygen ... (more)

I know a vacation is coming when stacks of books next to my bed start growing. I've started to notice that building those stacks makes the final weeks of the year easier -- the visual reminder of the upcoming break.

THIS year's York Festival of Ideas, which kicks off on June 13, will be tackling the North-South divide head on.

"Books Behind Bars" is program which pairs undergraduates from the University of Virginia with inmates at the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center to read classic Russian literature.

One of the most important moments in my teaching career came about 25 years ago when I contemplated leaving it.

'The bus company's yellow tin sign on its concrete post seemed for a long while a forlorn flag announcing nothing,' notes Stella, the narrator of Tessa Hadley's new novel Clever Girl .

Doctor Charles E. Gannon is a Distinguished Professor of English at St. Bonaventure University.

HAVING SHARPENED THEIR #2 PENCILS, my teenage daughters are about to take this spring's battery of standardized tests, leaving me to wonder what these tests mean - about their education, about the culture of college my husband and I are preparing them for, about American values.