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Writers' privacy row erupts as Italy's Ferrante unmasked

Oct 4, 2016

ROME (AFP) -- One of literature’s most talked-about mysteries appeared to have been cracked Monday with the unmasking of the identity of the Italian publishing sensation Elena Ferrante. In its wake,...
Chicago blogger Luvvie Ajayi offers wit, wisdom in new book ‘I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual’

Sept 28, 2016

“I’m Judging You” By Luvvie Ajayi Henry Holt (256 pages, $17) The wit of culture blogger Luvvie Ajayi (AwesomelyLuvvie.com) has earned her quite the following. She has been called upon by the lik...
‘Children of the New World’ finds virtual realities disenchanting

Sept 28, 2016

“Children of the New World” By Alexander Weinstein Picador (240 pages, $16) The typical protagonist of Alexander Weinstein’s cautionary tales in “Children of the New World” is a man who could bene...
My Hometown: Springsteen launches book tour in New Jersey

Sept 28, 2016

FREEHOLD, New Jersey (AP) -- The Boss was back in his hometown. Bruce Springsteen’s latest tour opened Tuesday, and the rocker who usually lets his songs do the talking yielded to fans to take a t...
Mara Wilson is not Matilda anymore

Sept 28, 2016

When Mara Wilson was a little girl, Hollywood couldn’t get enough of her. She was one of those child actors who seemed preternaturally mature. Her vocabulary was surprisingly expansive. She could ca...
Syrian poet Adonis says poetry 'can save Arab world'

Sept 26, 2016

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (AFP) -- Noted Syrian poet Adonis, whose name surfaces regularly as a top contender for the Nobel literature prize, says religious fanaticism is “destroying the heart of the Arab w...
Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Here I Am’ depicts a marriage falling apart

Sept 21, 2016

“Here I Am” By Jonathan Safran Foer Farrar, Straus and Giroux (592 pages, $28) True to the crumbling marriage at its center, what’s best in “Here I Am” — Jonathan Safran Foer’s moving, maddening a...
Harmonies, strife in Love’s Beach Boys tale

Sept 21, 2016

“Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy” By Mike Love with James S. Hirsch Blue Rider Press (448 pages, $28) Mike Love is acutely aware that he is perceived as a villain. In his new autobiograph...
‘Little Nothing’ a fierce fairy tale

Sept 21, 2016

Fairy tales waste no time getting under the skin. They pretend to be innocent, once upon a time and all that, but they never are. The darkened wood, the hooded stranger, the soup served at dinner hid...
‘The Oliver Stone Experience’ a deep dive into monumental movie career

Sept 21, 2016

“The Oliver Stone Experience” by Matt Zoller Seitz (TNS) “The Oliver Stone Experience” By Matt Zoller Seitz Abrams (480 pages, $50) Is there another living American director with a greater run of...
Global writers to engage in conversation at Seoul International Writers’ Festival

Sept 21, 2016

Writers from around the world will exchange ideas and share literary works at the Seoul International Writers’ Festival taking place from Sept. 25-Oct. 1 at the Arko Art Center and Daehakro Arts Thea...
Andrea Wulf’s Humboldt biography wins Science Book Prize

Sept 21, 2016

LONDON (AP) -- A biography of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt has been named science book of the year. Andrea Wulf’s “The Invention of Nature” was awarded the 25,000-pound ($33...
New book brings Atlas Obscura site’s wonders to printed page

Sept 21, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- An elf school in Iceland. A hospital for falcons in the Middle East. A museum in Independence, Missouri, for artwork made from hair. These are the types of attractions featured on t...
Lawrence Wright shows the human side of Middle East turmoil in ‘The Terror Years’

Sept 7, 2016

“The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State” By Lawrence Wright Knopf (384 pages, $28.95) “The Terror Years,” Lawrence Wright’s wide-ranging and intensively reported collection of storie...
Murder lurks deep in the mind

Sept 7, 2016

“Hell Fire” By Karin Fossum, translated from the Norwegian by Karl Dixon Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (272 pages, $24) With Scandinavian crime fiction all the rage and enormous attention paid to writ...