entertainment - "book"

In Jhumpa Lahiri's new book of stories, there are no fixed cultural stars to steer by.

Lois Lowry was 8 years old when she first encountered the loneliness and desperate poverty of the Baxter family in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' book, The Yearling.

THE Australian's Caroline Overington has won this year's Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature for her story of the kickbacks paid by AWB to the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Changing habits and making money may require a little manipulation, according to economist Richard Thaler. We explore the teachings of his book, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling receives an outstanding achievement prize at the Galaxy British book Awards.

Slate.com Deputy Editor David Plotz spent a year reading and blogging the Bible, which in a recent poll of U.S. adults was determined to be America's favorite book. Plotz answers the question: Is the Bible a good read?

KAELI MADILL is obsessed with dieting.She subscribes to magazines like Self, Shape and Runner's World for their "I-Lost-40-Pounds" success stories. She watches pound-shedding transformations on "The Biggest Loser." She flips through diet books, and buys those with glowing testimonials.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Dalmatian Press LLC, of Franklin, Tennessee, has announced a voluntary recall of Little Builder Children?s Board book Sets with Toys (ISBN...

The prime minister has paid tribute to JK Rowling after she was awarded an outstanding achievement prize at the 2008 Galaxy British book awards.Gordon Brown said he ...

Stalags were pocket books whose stories revealed lusty female SS officers sexually abusing camp prisoners. During the 1960s, parallel to the Eichmann trial, sales of this pornographic literature broke...