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Spring has sprung. And what better way to celebrate than by curling up with a good book? It's great mental exercise.

In the mid-1980s as a young undergraduate student of Latin American politics, to me Gabriel Garcia Marquez was as much a political historian as he was a writer of fantastical novels.

In his most famous novel, 1984, George Orwell wrote, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."

I can trace my early career interests along a vector of science literature that began in elementary school, with Paul de Kruif's 1926 classic, Microbe Hunters , continued with Berton Roueche's wonderful New Yorker "Medical Detective" stories in junior high, and was followed by Horace Freeland Judson's Eighth Day of Creation, an inspirational ... (more)

As the school year winds down, students can finally think about something that has been hard to fit in their schedules for the past months: recreational reading.

The literary world suffered a great loss Thursday with the passing of Spanish language author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The Canadian Press is reporting that MacLeod's former publisher, Doug Gibson, confirmed his death Sunday at the age of 77 after suffering a stroke in January.

The full text of the Nobel lecture delivered on December 8, 1982 by the Colombian great who's died at his home in Mexico City.

The collection at the National Trust property stretches from the eighteenth century to the present day and contains a comprehensive collection of over 700 books and ephemera.

PBS Distribution allows us to return to Russia of yesteryear and today with Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin on DVD.

This week we're going to hop back into the world of pre-Christian classics and take a look at one of the most influential Greek writers: Plato.

Boyd Tonkin recalls a recent pilgrimage to the former home of Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Cartagena and marvels at a writer whose fantasies helped define a country and continent Boyd Tonkin is Literary Editor at The Independent.

Unlike Paul Revere, you don't need to look to Boston's Old North Church for two lanterns to see that you should hit the road for Concord and Lexington, Mass.

The first time I read Gabriel Garca Mrquez was when I was proofreading the galleys of "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor", which the Editorial Sudamericana was getting ready to reprint in Argentina.

Friends surround Melquin Merchan, an 18-year-old painter from Aracataca, as he paints a portrait of Gabriel Garcia Marquez in front of the house where the Nobel laureate was born in Aracataca, Colombia Former Indian prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, a polyglot, once told interlocutors he had read many works of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... (more)

Isabel Allende , best-selling Chilean writer and one of Latin America's most renowned novelists.

Mike Mullin blew into the young adult literature scene with "Ashfall," his debut novel about life after a Yellowstone supervolcano blows up and destroys life as we know it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez listens to a speech during the New Journalism Prize awards ceremony at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico, on October 2, 2007.

When it comes to working with veterans, government efforts aren't limited to health and employment programs.

On its simplest level, Zia Haider Rahman's "In the Light of What We Know" is a classic bildungsroman describing a man who is born into poverty in rural Bangladesh, moves to England as a boy, wins a scholarship to Oxford, adds a law degree from Harvard, enjoys succeeding careers as a derivatives trader on Wall Street and a crusading lawyer in Asia, ... (more)