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Philip Bobbitt's powerful, dense and brilliant new book argues that the nature of terrorism has changed as nationhood has evolved.

The Bryant Park Project book club moderator, Sarah Goodyear, announces the latest selection.

A Voyage Long and Strange Rediscovering the New World By Tony Horwitz Holt; 445 pages; $27.50 Christopher Columbus, as any schoolkid will tell you, did not think the Earth was flat. What children do not learn: The explorer believed the planet was shaped like...

Tom Kealey has taught a lot of writing classes at Stanford University, but never one that asked students to consider the dramatic pause provided by the "page flip." Or how wide to draw "the gutter." Kealey and co-instructor Adam Johnson taught a winter course...

Stephenie Meyer, author of the best-selling young adult series Twilight, has written her first adult book. The Host is a science fiction romance about two woman — one an alien from outer space — who inhabit the same body and are in love with the same man.

Reuters - The first screen portrayal of Dracula was so eerie, some critics asked whether the actor himself could be a vampire. But since his death, little has been done to resurrect Max Schreck's reputation -- until now.

When Horton Hears a Who, is there a sermon to be heard? When Horton's world of Who-ville was "saved by the Smallest of All," ...

TODAY Charlie Ayers Talks about "Food 2.0." 2 p.m. book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, the Embarcadero at Market St., S.F. (415) 835-1020. Augusten Burroughs Presents "A Wolf at the Table." 5:30 p.m. Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Ave., Capitola. (831) 462-4415....

Quakeland By Francesca Lia Block Manic D Press; 210 pages; $22.95 Katrina has been having dreams. She sees women clasping the bodies of children, a brain blown intact from a skull. What's worse, the dreams seem to be prophetic. Subway bombings, tidal waves,...

Negro With a Hat The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey By Colin Grant Oxford University Press; 530 pages; $27.95 Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was the Icarus of 20th century black political leadership. Arriving in Harlem from Jamaica in the late 1910s, with no...