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You don't remember Mavis Gallant ? If you're older than 14, you shared a century with her characters.

Bird-world star: The Wall Street Journal looks at the long-awaited second edition, out this week of David Allen Sibley's 2000 best seller, The Sibley Guide to Bird, that helped "turn him into a birding Your Take contributions have not been reviewed for accuracy by USA TODAY.

In 15th- and 16th-century Japan, warlords reigning over different states were constantly at war.

I'm not one who believes the world is so simple that people who agree on one thing necessarily agree on everything else.

This adaptation of Aislinn Hunter's novel is highly attuned to the inner lives of its protagonists, all of them forced to confront anxieties over parenthood and genetic determinism in the course of the story.

The urban provincials at New York Magazine have found their new Lena Dunham, a novelist named Benjamin Kunkel who they are primping to be the next big thing no one has ever heard of.

More than 1,100 third-, fourth- and fifth-graders enjoyed an abbreviated short story rather than a novel Wednesday at this year's Franklin County Children's Literature Festival on the campus of Ottawa University.

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TV's latest hit drama "Resurrection" chronicles events in the small town of Arcadia, Mo., when long-lost friends and family start returning from the dead.

The S.C. House Committee on Ways and Means recently voted to reduce state support for the College of Charleston by $52,000 as punishment for selecting "Fun Home," a graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, as the featured text in the 2013 College Reads! program.

England's best espionage writers found fame after World War II, but the spy-fiction genre was born when popular British detective fiction was infused with pre-WWI invasion anxieties.

Nationally syndicated, Kendal Rautzhan writes and lectures on children's literature.

Watch closely, she says, and you'll see an ancient creative process unfolding in a relatively new -- and faster -- storytelling medium.

Stories on Stage is a series in which actors read literature to a live audience.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills recently won an American Library Association Stonewall Award "for a work of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience" for her young adult novel Beautiful Music for Ugly Children .

Mysore, Mar. 11- A State-level seminar on Rashtrakavi Dr. G.S. Shivarudrappa's personality and poetry and a State-level Dr. GSS Bhavageethe recitation contest, organised by the Kannada department of University Evening College, began at Junior BA Hall of Maharaja's College this morning.

Tyler Quann holds the Dr. Seuss book, "Wacky Wednesday," during Lullaby's celebration of the children's author's birthday.

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The Lakewood Playhouse has announced its 76th season of shows! It's a season filled with laughter, mystery, literature, and stories that touch the heart.

Judy Mappin, left, with HA©lA ne Holden, one of the three original partners who started the bookstore, at a Mappin tribute at Montreal's Centaur Theatre, 24 Oct 2005.