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This portrait of court life in medieval Japan follows the life and exploits of the great Genji.

My grandfather was a jack of all trades for my twin brother and me. Knowledgeable tour guide, he turned a banal working-class suburb into a living museum-we spent hours picking up cans to recycle, exploring the railroad tracks, and bringing home gently used treasures.

Michael Lindall is the face of London's latest Jay Gatsby as Ruby in the Dust's acclaimed stage version of the American literature classic The Great Gatsby returns to the London stage the very same week as Baz Luhrmann 's Gatsby Hollywood movie opens in the UK.

With few Asian voices heard in Western literature, Disko Praphanchith is a talented young writer who is about to change all that! His debut novel, Courage: A Story of Love and Friendship , is a powerful, character-driven story that addresses the social plight of women today and touches on issues that deal with domestic abuse, racism, the loss of ... (more)

Imagine that you are listening to a book club discuss a novel. Let's say it's Lisa Moore's bestseller February , this year's survivor of Canada Reads and a likely choice for the months and meetings ahead.

When novelist Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize last year, it brought scrutiny not to Mo Yan's novels or to Chinese literature, but to politics.

Forty years after being written, an unpublished novel by Pearl S. Buck, the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, will be released this fall, her publisher said on Tuesday.

It is the year 2049. China's economic development has so disturbed the world's other major powers that the United States, Japan, and Russia form an alliance and invade China.

Author Shawn Goodman's unflinching "Kindness for Weakness" follows 15-year-old James, the youngest son in a massively screwed-up family.

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Film historian Ed Rampell details Hollywood's entangled relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon; HOUSES OF THE DEAD: Nancy Kurshan exposes the cruel human rights offenses taking place inside America's vast gulag of Control Unit Prisons; BROTHERHOOD OF SUMMER: David Macaray charts the history of the most powerful union in the US: the Baseball ... (more)

Kkeno Independent Publishing's Phillipa Keaney, centre, with former publisher George Griffiths and his wife Judy Cox .

In an essay in a 1933 issue of the magazine Scrutiny , the critic F. R. Leavis delivered a vicious hatchet job on one poor, unsuspecting poet: To say that [his] verse is magniloquent ... is to say that it is not doing as much as its impressive pomp and volume seem to be asserting; that mere orotundity is a disproportionate part of the whole effect; ... (more)

The UK-transplant is an award-winning author, but what does it take to get her to keep turning the pages? The best-selling author on his books, keeping other authors' voices out of his head and what he likes to read when he's not writing.

This summer, The Sherman Playhouse will debut Lucille Maude Montgomery's timeless classic ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette .

And he does it with a vengeance in David Ives adaptation of "The Liar," Corneille's classic 1643 farce.

Two stars out of four stars Rated R; sexual content, language 1 hour, 45 minutes In French with English subtitles Germain is a high school literature teacher frustrated by his students' lack of enthusiasm.

If you're looking for a good book, check out TV. There are plenty of shows based on novels, short stories and even comic books.

Le French Book has now released its full 99-cent e-book series of short stories from seven of France's best writers -Tatiana de Rosnay, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Yann Quefflec, Daniel Picouly, Christine Orban, Irne Frain, and Harold Cobert.

I came to this book a little biased: Salter is one of my favorite novelists. I would put his 1975 book, Light Years , right up there with The Great Gatsby and the works of Hemingway in the canon of American literature.