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National Book Award Finalists announced: view the full list here.

Bartleby had Asperger’s; Tiny Tim suffered from distal renal tubular acidosis: on undiagnosed maladies in literature.

Hope or satisfaction? In honor of Snow White’s two hundredth birthday, a look at the different types of fairy-tale endings.

Watch a novel being written live by thirty-six authors.

Bloomsbury will reprint fifty-thousand copies of Howard Jacobson’s “The Finkler Question,” the winner of the Man Booker Prize.

Sample six of the one hundred digested twentieth-century classics from John Crace’s Brideshead Abbreviated.

The Washington Post reviews three books about UFOs.

Why Thomas Jefferson would want us to build a National Digital Library.

“White people had all the power and blacks had none”: read an excerpt from Condoleezza Rice’s memoir about growing up in segregated Birmingham.

The winner of this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize says he was “famous for not winning prizes.”

The “Great Unfinished Novel” reminds us of the randomness of art.

The baseball infographic Web site Flip Flop Fly Ball gets a book deal with Bloomsbury.

About time, eh? The Kindle arrives in Canada.

Colum McCann’s “Let the Great World Spin” is the best-selling National Book Award nominee.

The husband-and-wife translating duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky tackle Tolstoy’s shorter works.

The year’s top books about books.

George Carlin’s memoir “Last Words” was ten years in the making.