Literature News

In the hard-boiled universe of Richard Lange's debut novel, 'This Wicked World,' trying to do the right thing can lead only to trouble.

On August 14, the Guggenheim Museum launches It Came from Brooklyn , a new monthly concert series that will showcase Brooklyn's emerging and established talents in the fields of music and literature as part of the museum's 50th Anniversary celebrations.

One of Europe's biggest book fairs this week will have to contend with the economic crisis in Spain as well as its traditional battle to knock down the walls between high- and low-brow literature.

Harper Lee published her first and only novel in 1960, at the age of thirty-four. It won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year.

At a publishing event in Berlin recently, one well-known children's author was chatting to another.

The stories range from grim to ghastly: A boy returns to school from a mental hospital five years after setting his playmate on fire.

An unpublished manuscript by author Terry Kay sits on display recently at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation center in Watkinsville.

Dominic West is to get his fans' pulses racing by reading saucy scenes. The Wire hunk, whose character Jimmy McNulty has an army of swooning admirers, has been recruited to read seduction scenes from classics such as Lady Chatterley's Lover.

People happily talk about the mystery of poetry and of literature. They talk about it ad nauseam.

July 6, 8:42 PM Comment RSS It takes an exceptional piece of literature to evoke the imaginative activity that paints a picture in your head, or plays out on your own private stage if you lower your eyelids.

CHENNAI: Speakers, at a function on Saturday, highlighted the relationship between literature and cinema, two forms of creative work.

Vasily Aksyonov, a prolific Russian writer and one of the last dissidents to be exiled from the Soviet Union, died Monday.

Paperback romance or Proust? Jack Murnighan, author of "Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits" , explains why a literary classic is the perfect beach book.

Seventh graders open up outside the school building Karen Kimball Comments Recommend On Wednesday mornings toward the end of the school year, students from Tim Leavey's seventh grade language arts class at South Lake Middle School in Woodbridge gathered under trees by the nearby lake to discuss literature.

Three Japanese artists living in Berlin, together with a French musician, will stage two performances in Yokohama featuring music, dance and readings to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of the city's port.

London, June 30 : Michael Jackson might have been known for his wild behaviour, but for music producer and King Of Pop's childhood pal David Gest, he was a loyal friend who made him laugh.

Art and literature are vital to Leslie Balkany's existence. When Balkany joined Ackland Art Museum as a museum educator in 1998, she knew she somehow wanted to provide an art and literature experience for museum attendees.

GCSE English Literature Quiz It's exam season. In a spirit of solidarity with frazzled school children, the Magazine is inviting readers to see how they would fare in a series of curriculum tests.

Abstract Many students in literature courses read the texts given by the teachers as only read and remember several things they expect to cover in the quizzes, such as the plots, the settings, and the characters.

"Folks say that if you listen real close at the height of the full moon, when the wind is blowin' off Nantucket Sound from the nor' east and the dogs are howlin' for no earthly reason, you can hear the awful screams of the crew of the "Ellie May," a sturdy whaler Captained by John McTavish; for it was on just such a night when the rum was flowin' ...