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Colin Stanley, Wilson's publisher and bibliographer, said the writer and philosopher never fully recovered from a stroke in 2011.

Over in London, something remarkable is happening in the world of theater. It's a revelation, a revolution, a reinvention.

The author of the acclaimed novel "The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years," would have been 85 years old on Dec. 12. Coming from rural Kyrgyzstan, Aimatov brought to Russian literature the immensity of the steppes where a human being is only a small part of nature.

Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore inaugurated the second Taj literature festival in which a number of authors and poets will participate.

Barry Kitterman, Austin Peay State University professor of creative writing, has been awarded a prestigious Creative Writing Fellowship in fiction from the National Endowment of the Arts.

The graphic novel - an umbrella term that has come to cover all aspects of comics-related literature even when the work in question isn't a novel in the accepted sense - comes closer every year to breaking down the prejudices keeping it from being accepted as a form every bit as worthy as any other, and 2013, as the array below will show, brought a ... (more)

The great endeavor of writing a novel, I have discovered, is equal parts exhilarating, exasperating, and exhausting.

Dr Samuel Johnson's dictionary defines a novel as "a small tale, generally of love".

Khalifa's winning novel, 'No Knives in this City's Kitchens', about life under Baath regime; writer unable to attend ceremony in Cairo due to ongoing Syrian war Daily book trade headlines and breaking publishing news by email - just 3 a month.

Steve Gamble laughs during a recent discussion of the classic 'A Christmas Carol.'

Are you confounded by Common Core? Are you sick of endless standardized testing with less classroom teaching? Is your child doing the new fuzzy math?.

Notable Penguin Classics include Plato's Republic , Homer's The Odyssey , Darwin's The Origin of Species, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and hundreds more, including, now, in the first straight-to-classic printing in the imprint's history, Morrissey's Autobiography .

Readers will surely get a kick out of this banned book mug offered by The Philosophers Guild.

Ever since childhood, Emma Jane Holloway refused to accept that history was nothing but facts prisoned behind the closed door of time.

There's something about the frenzied vigor of snowflakes, shopping outings, and journeys back home, that make us want to take a break and curl up with a good book.

Leonardo Padura is a Cuban writer, journalist and winner of the 2012 National Literature Award, whose novels have been translated into more than 15 languages.

"Hobbit" star Richard Armitage may not be a method actor in the strictest sense of the phrase, but he certainly took extensive preparations to get into the role of J.R.R. Tolkien's dwarf king, Thorin Oakenshield.

The Annals of Applied Statistics , Vol. 7, No. 2. , pp. 1010-1039, doi:10.1214/12-aoas617 We describe a network clustering framework, based on finite mixture models, that can be applied to discrete-valued networks with hundreds of thousands of nodes and billions of edge variables.

The Yorkshire Post looks back on December/Christmas 1893. Among other things, this is what was happening: December did bring some lighter news.

Chance Theater presents the fifth show of its 15th Anniversary Season - a family-friendly holiday offering The Secret Garden - The Musical with book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Marsha Norman , music by Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon , and directed by Casey Long and KC Wilkerson.