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The 30 years Pope has spent living and traveling in the Middle East, from a 1980 visit as an Oxford student through a decade-long stint as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal , color this reflection on the region's recent history.

Published: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:36 p.m. The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.

"Going Rogue" is going big. Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book.

That's biographer T. J. Stiles talking about the recession on the floor of the glitzy National Book Awards yesterday.

Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin" has captured the fiction prize at the 60th annual National Book Awards.

Recorded Books has announced a new nonfiction imprint, ITK Audio . ITK Audio will focus mainly on titles in history, biography and memoir with an eye toward selecting "works of authors who are respected for the quality and originality of their work and that will likely be considered as relevant" years from now as they are today.

Weeks on list: 3 * What's the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard -- but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point; Blink ; and Outliers , ...

Following U.K. bestseller Austerity Britain 19451951 , this is the second title in historian Kynaston's series on postwar Britain.

Greg Mortenson was a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school.

The Anglo-American alliance in WWII was not inevitable, writes former Baltimore Sun correspondent Olson .

Readers who loved Mary Karr's best-selling memoirs, "The Liars' Club," about her raw, growing-up-in-spite-of-her-parents childhood in Texas, or "Cherry," about her drug-hazed coming of age in California, will also love her new book, "Lit," about her painful navigation through alcoholism and depression in New England.

Last week, we visited my nephew's townhouse in Connecticut and I observed his choice of nonfiction books, noticing how he is interested in World War II.

Anne Frank is a unique figure in the iconography of Judaism. Of the 6 million victims of the Holocaust, her face is the only one we all know intimately and even subliminally.

HOLCOMB, Kansas -- It's one of America's most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on November 15, 1959, at their rural farmhouse.

Sales of this year's top 10 non-fiction books in October were down 52% year on year, while sales of hardback fiction titles have soared by 90%. Figures for the most recent week to 31st October showed non-fiction continuing to underperform.

In the 1940s and '50s, Los Angeles was home to a remarkably high-profile mob presence.

In this absorbing blend of bright-eyed reportage and hands-on participation, journalist Milgrom demystifies the creepy art of bringing dead creatures back to life and dispels the myth that taxidermists merely "stuff animals." The author's quest to understand the compulsion of obsessed hobbyists and exacting scientists alike to duplicate what nature ...

The search is on for a new Mrs. West Virginia to represent the Mountain State in the 2010 Mrs.

Some writers are masters of self-promotion, thoroughly convinced and convincing in their roles as artist-shamans. Others seem driven to self-effacement, shrugging off as quickly as possible the writer's prophetic mantel.

For whatever reason, the military always has provided fertile ground for black comedy.