Philip Roth, John Banville, and Amos Oz are among the nominees for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Colum McCann, T. J. Stiles, and Keith Waldrop win National Book Awards.
“The Imperial Cruise” argues that Theodore Roosevelt based his foreign policy on odd notions of race.
Junot Diaz failed for five years while writing “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”
Big event books get their own movie-style trailers.
Karl Rove’s memoir “Courage and Responsibility” will be published in March.
A Minnesota father spoke only Klingon to his child for three years.
Barack Obama is the subject of more than sixty children’s books.
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.
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