Literature News

BEIJING: Beijing boy Liu Hanzhao, 9, is starting his day with reading aloud Confucian classics for 20 minutes after breakfast.

TORONTO - Books about civil war and the Great Depression have won Canadian Children's Literature Awards.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 11:32 pm US/Eastern 1 of 1 Author Colum McCann , Frank McCourt's daughter Maggie McCourt and her daughter Chiara McCourt speak during a memorial service for Frank McCourt at Symphony Space on Oct.

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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen . Edited by Susannah Carson.

Necessity is really the mother of invention when we see this idiom being incarnated in our daily lives.

Contemporary Santhali literature has taken off in a big way since it became an official language of Jharkhand in 2003, but it has not come of age because the government has not added it to the list of official Indian languages, says a pioneer of the Santhali book trade.

During its research into the application of neuroscience in business, a New Jersey based think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes, LLC made an inadvertent and amazing discovery.

It's a long night's journey from the bald, clawed bloodsucker of "Nosferatu" to the stylish coif and sculpted abs of Edward Cullen.

A A A' Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards.

WE'RE in homework hell. The printer isn't working so the oldest can't print out pictures of bottle openers for a design technology project.

M.G. Vassanji, seen here at the 2003 Giller Prize gala, has now added a Governor General's Literary Award to his haul, winning on Tuesday for his memoir A Place Within: Rediscovering India.

Actress Kathryn E. Erbe of "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" discussed literature with Watertown High School students Monday, kicking off the Actors and Writers Book Club.

Talking about writing, and specifically his latest work, Let The Great World Spin author Colum McCann said Tuesday evening, "The gift of literature is to live in a body that is not your own." McCann gives the readers those bodies, allowing them to experience a certain time and place, through the voices of characters like the Irish monk, working ...

An English professor in Stockton, Calif., said vampire films are popular because vampires are "human-like" manifestations of evil.

AUTHOR Patrick Ness has recommended pupils get stuck into trashy literature alongside the classics.

Abstract One of the major challenges of functional genomics is to unravel the connection between genotype and phenotype.

Charles Dickens' novel "A Christmas Carol" is well-known, and the much-loved Ebenezer Scrooge is one of the most memorable characters in English literature.

BOOKWORMS and budding writers are getting stuck into the Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival this week.

Here are Friday's events at Miami Book Fair International at Miami Dade College, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami.