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Online resource for books launches aggregator for reviewsJun 8, 2016NEW YORK (AP) -- An online resource for literary content is hoping to create the publishing equivalent of Rotten Tomatoes. Literary Hub (lithub.com) announced Tuesday the launch of Book Marks, compi... -
‘Ink and Bone’ takes a frightening turn to the supernaturalJun 8, 2016“Ink and Bone” By Lisa Unger Touchstone (352 pages, $24.99) The Hollows, an idyllic sounding town in upstate New York, keeps calling to author Lisa Unger. This fictional town that attracts thos... -
Exploration of what it means to be humanJun 8, 2016“Becoming Wise” By Krista Tippett The Penguin Press (288 pages, $28) Most of us can only dream of the dinner parties Krista Tippett could put together. We’re lucky, then, that her new book is t... -
Actress tells her life in love letters to men in her lifeJun 8, 2016“Dear Mr. You” By Mary-Louise Parker Scribner (228 pages, $25) In the imaginative and evocative “Dear Mr. You,” sexy “Weeds” actress Mary-Louise Parker hints at her compelling life story throug... -
‘Korea, a culture of desires’: Le ClezioJun 2, 2016Acclaimed French writer discusses evolving themes in Korean literature -
Unnamed 'Oxygen Thief' becomes self-published successJun 1, 2016NEW YORK (AP) -- The fair-skinned man with the hoodie and dark ski cap sits on a bench outside McNally Jackson Books in downtown Manhattan, where neither patrons nor employees seem aware that he's th... -
Fat and happy: No one tells author Lindy West what to doJun 1, 2016Lindy West is a defender of bodies: women’s bodies, fat bodies, every body’s right to exist in whatever way, shape or form, unjudged and unassailed. “Everyone has a body,” she says. “We haven’t devel... -
The worldwide war of keystrokesJun 1, 2016“Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War” By Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster (352 pages, $28) You’ve heard the complaining, from the White House on down, about the cyberattacks on our coun... -
Rare Shakespeare first edition sold for nearly 2m poundsMay 26, 2016LONDON (AFP) - A rare first edition of British playwright William Shakespeare’s works from 1623 sold for 1.87 million pounds ($2.75 million) at Christie’s on Wednesday, the auction house said. A pri... -
Writers share Wodehouse comic fiction prize, win a pigMay 25, 2016LONDON (AP) -- Satires set in financial-crisis Ireland and the high-end art world share this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, whose rewards include a bottle of champagne a...
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Helen Mirren to narrate audiobook for Beatrix Potter storyMay 25, 2016NEW YORK (AP) -- Helen Mirren’s latest role is audio only. The award-winning British actress is narrating the recently rediscovered Beatrix Potter story “The Tale of Kitty-In-Boots,” Penguin Random... -
Oil riches help keep alive bedouin poetryMay 25, 2016ABU DHABI (AFP) -- The Middle East’s poetry equivalent of “Pop Idol” is helping to keep alive an age-old tradition using bedouin dialect, which is barely understood outside the Arabian Gulf. Apart ... -
With Booker win behind her, Han expands realm of expressionMay 25, 2016Han Kang says she was never a best-selling writer until now -
World War II's endgame was also a beginning for Samuel BeckettMay 25, 2016“A Country Road, A Tree: A Novel” By Jo Baker Knopf (304 pages, $26.95) When war came to Europe in 1939, Samuel Beckett was a published but largely unknown and unread Irish writer working in th... -
‘The Gene’ captures scientific method in all its fumbling gloryMay 25, 2016“The Gene: An Intimate History” By Siddhartha Mukherjee Scribner (592 pages, $30) “Like Pythagoras’s triangle, like the cave paintings at Lascaux, like the Pyramids in Giza, like the image of a...
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