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Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Social Network,” wasn’t looking to make another movie about Facebook. Sorkin had been struggling to find an idea for a new project...
Nearly a decade after Jocelyn Bioh wrote “School Girls” Or, “The African Mean Girls Play,” the play itself has barely changed. But the world around it has. The comedy...
Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for playful, genre-blending works that fuse the classical and the modern. The Toronto-born Carson, 76,...
On Aug. 31, the great writer Wendell Berry died “suddenly and peacefully” at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he had lived with his beloved wife, Tanya Berry,...
Marcelo Nogueira is not well versed in the classics but the 27-year-old Brazilian book influencer was seduced by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'White Nights,' a 19th-century tale of love and loneliness...
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian who in poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and misjudgments...
With forecasters of doom debating the end of reading, of publishing and of literacy in general, what should we make of William T. Vollmann’s forthcoming novel, 'A Table for...
Quick, guess what Amanda Knox’s Wikifeet rating is. It’s OK to laugh. The whole concept is ridiculous (and the answer is 4.42/5). Which is why it’s the opening idea...
Acclaimed author Patricia Lockwood is this year's winner of the Gabe Hudson Prize, a $10,000 honor named for the late author, educator and editor and given for fiction that...
Eiko Kadono, the author behind Japan’s most famous - and almost certainly most beloved - literary witch, has a little trouble going up the stairs these days. At 91,...
