Books
Novelist Ha Jin
"The Writer as Migrant" is Jin's latest book examining the different ways writers have dealt with geographic displacement.
Debating Lincoln
Celebrate the 200th birthday of "Honest Abe" with a fresh look at the man, the myth and what he means today....
Darwin the Abolitionist
How witnessing the injustices of slavery drove Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution....
Best Black Writing of 2009
Editors of two new anthologies talk about what it takes to make the cut for "Best African American Fiction" and "Best African American Essays."...
When money is the muse
Fed up living as a starving writer, Katy Lederer took a job at a hedge fund, but she kept writing poetry on the side, often about money and our complicated lust for it....
Magical thinking
"The Chronicles of Narnia," Dungeons and Dragons, the secret behind "The Secret" and other alternative realities....
Can Robert Burns save the economy of Scotland?
Scotland depends on approximately $300 million each year as a result of the country's beloved poet Robert Burns....
Azar Nafisi's new memoir
In her best-seller "Reading Lolita in Tehran," Azar Nafisi wrote about the lives of women in Iran; now she tells her own life story....
Thirteen books that changed America
Writer and book critic Jay Parini scanned American bookshelves and identified the seminal works in the birth and growth of the nation....
Apocalyptic fiction
Stories about the end of the world and what happens after that, with authors Kevin Brokmeier, Lydia Millet and Scott Westerfeld....
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