Literature News

By selling nearly 1 million hard copies and 500,000 ebooks of his latest novel in just five months, Jia Pingwa reasserted his status in the top echelons of Chinese contemporary authors.

Michelle de Kretser has been named winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin literary award for her fourth novel, Questions of Travel, at a ceremony in Canberra on Wednesday lunchtime.

Fourne: Classic French bakery now open in Berkeley across the street from some of the Claremont's tennis courts.

Combining graffiti and literature, publisher Penguin UK launched the Penguin Street Art series.

Examiner doesn't often venture into the "blogosphere" but accidentally caught John Sepich's take on the Cormac McCarthy masterpiece only just recently read by Examiner: "The novel is like a 470-page Tom Waits song -- blood and whiskey and men with names like J-Bone and Cabbage and Daddy Watson and Ab Jones and Hoghead and Boneyard.

Science fiction and fantasy fans rejoice and take some time to visit the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy .

Maurice Nadeau, who has died at the tender age of 102, was, according to John Calder, writing in the TLS , "the most versatile and many-faceted figure in post-war literary Paris".

When's the last time you read a comic book? Oh, right, the term now is "graphic novel" - as if calling them "comics" was somehow undignified or not sufficiently intellectual.

'The Enchanted Wanderer" by Nikolai Leskov, released by Vintage Classics in April 2013, reveals a neglected writer's masterful evocations of restless passion.

It may have been built in 1773, but the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse in New London has turned a decidedly 21st-century corner with its latest exhibit.

Robert G. Hagstrom, chief investment strategist and managing director for the Legg Mason Investment Counsel and author of eight investment books, found inspiration for this book in Charlie Munger's notion of a latticework of mental models.

Elucidation of new biomarkers and potential drug targets from high-throughput profiling data is a challenging task due to a limited number of available biological samples and questionable reproducibility of differential changes in cross-dataset comparisons.

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio sit at a table at the Beverly Hills Hotel bar in 2010.

James Weldon Johnson lives on in history and is often best-known for his leadership of the NAACP by becoming the organization's first Black manager.

Tonight the author Neil Gaiman will be appearing at the Peacock theatre in London in conversation with Claire Armitstead, the Guardian's literary editor.

Given the fact I loathe the word "foodie" and dislike the term "beach read" , I'm surprised I'm so excited about this list.

The work, the first published novel penned by Haworth's legendary literary sister, has been given an auction estimate of between A 30,000 and A 50,000.

As his classes struggle throughout the year with some denser Shakespeare passages, Brad Fennessy pulls out his secret weapon – comics.

Today is Blumesday. Not the Bloomsday where readers celebrate James Joyce's novel Ulysses - that was Sunday.

For every 'designer drug' the authorities ban, clandestine labs are churning out a new version.