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A drama teacher has lent his voice to the first Harry Potter character created since J.K. Rowling's final book was published.

Apple and its eponymous logo lost some luster in 2013. Experts questioned the company's ability to innovate .

Zombies now populate videogames, commercials , even spinoffs of classic books like Pride and Prejudice .

The sequel to this year's hit World War Z has found its director. Juan Antonio Bayona, who directed the acclaimed true story The Impossible in 2012, has been hired by Paramount, Skydance and Brad Pitt's Plan B to direct.

Reading is an intimate experience. When you pick up a book and put your eyes to paper or pixels, there is nothing between you and the author's mind.

Louis Zamperini spent time in an agonizing prison camp being tortured by the Japanese as a WWII POW.

If you're preparing to send out hundreds of holiday greetings in a single email blast, you probably missed the dust-up between the philatelists and the marketing department over the U.S. Postal Service's new Harry Potter stamps.

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There's another "Castle" -derived graphic novel, "Unholy Storm," coming this spring.

The eighteenth and most recent book in the series, "Never Go Back," will form the basis of this follow-up to 2012's well-received adaptation of Lee Child's bestselling novel series.

Henry Winkler gives a Fonz-like thumbs up as he poses with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall after being honored by Britain's National Literacy Trust.

To recap: I'm not a fan of books that are written for and promoted mainly to a certain ethnic or racial group because the works supposedly reflect "them" or "their" experience.

You only have to spend a minute or two with Genevieve Liu, the 14-year-old University of Chicago Lab School freshman, to know, in your heart of hearts, this kid is going places.

It's a good day for Harry Potter fans - not to mention Warner Bros. stock holders.

Proficiat Postaliosa! If Harry Potter commemorative stamps can cast a solvency spell on the U.S. Postal Service, that's some magic we can get behind.

I love Ann Patchett's fiction. I have read three of her six novels - "Bel Canto," "Run," and "State of Wonder" - and enjoyed them so thoroughly that she ranks exceptionally high among my favorite authors.

Mitch Albom has made a career of exploring moments of human connection. He has inspired worldwide audiences with best-sellers such as "Tuesdays With Morrie" and "The Time Keeper," and founded charities from Detroit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

A select group of 19 Middlesex Community College students has been accepted into the new Honors Program at the College, including Hunter Spitale of Old Saybrook .

Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin are starting to sour on the new pope. In response to Pope Francis's rejection last week of the idea that trickle-down economics, "encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world," these two paragons of the far right -- both of whom regularly invoke ... (more)

2."The Valley of Amazement," by Amy Tan The intertwined fates of two courtesans in early 20th-century China.