Last year NPR put out a list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy novels as voted on by their listeners. Such lists can be helpful for keeping up with the current zeitgeist of a genre (or in their case, genres). However, lists voted on by the public tend to severely underestimate the influence of older [...]

Letting go of what was never theirs: An older couple try to tame a child of the wilderness.

A young woman comes of age in Italy during the occupation, when her family winery is taken over by the Nazis.

Bright sparks amid gloom over the number of foreign-language books reaching English readers That nasty rumour still won't go away: publishing houses in the UK are allergic to literary fiction in translation. A recent report by English PEN even warned that "future geniuses comparable to Murakami or García Márquez might never become accessible to English readers" if the situation isn't properly ...

Adapted into an Oscar-nominated film, The Help sits at No. 4 in its 43rd week on the list.

Pittsburg State University Distinguished Visiting Writers Series will feature fiction writers Lizanne Minerva and Lori Baker Martin at 7 p.m. today in the Governors Room, Overman Student Center.

In a world where memoirists vie for media attention with ever-more-alarming personal stories, the view that there is no such thing as truth is dangerous

In a world where memoirists vie for media attention with ever-more-alarming personal stories, the view that there is no such thing as truth is dangerous

My house has three cats, and every morning between 2 and 4 a.m., at least one of them needs to go outside. My wife, who could sleep through an alien invasion, they do not bother. No, they come to me,...

LJ Rich investigates the possibilities of multimedia story-telling by getting dressed up for a starring role in a multimedia project.