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In Just After Sunset, Stephen King's first short-story collection since 2002's Everything's Eventual, the author casts his creative ...

In 1945, two unknown and unpublished writers Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs collaborated on a novel based on a real-life ...

When The Journal of Hélène Berr was published in France early this year it became an overnight publishing sensation. Now, as the book is released in English, readers in the US will have a chance to discover why.

In Yes is Better Than No by Byrd Baylor and Leonard Chana, Papago basketweaver Elma Dominguez, recently evicted from her home, wins a Kon Tiki swimming pool at the fair. She puts it to good use, but bureaucrats and do-gooders can't leave well enough alone in a comic/tragic series of ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.

In this sequel to The Mummy Returns, Rick O'Connell and his family awaken an Emperor of ancient China and his terracotta army.

The best thing about this collaboration between Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs is its gruesomely comic title.

Like many businesses across the retail sector, the publishing industry has been hit by a raft of doom and gloom in the past few weeks.

Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series (in case you somehow don't know, that's four books chronicling the love story of a vampire and a human girl) has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide.  On Friday, Nov. 21, the film version of "Twilight" will arrive in US theaters.

Philip Norman's exhaustive and artfully sketched new biography of John Lennon explores the split between a man who could be cruel and violent, and the artist who inspired millions.