entertainment - "book"

Read what the director has to say about CGI in his upcoming comic book adaptation.

Bill O'Reilly is mad at us. Last week NEWSWEEK mocked his new book's title, 'A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity,' and O'Reilly went on air to denounce our editor, Jon Meacham: 'NEWSWEEK has really gone off the rails with its far-left posture,' he said. 'For destroying a once fine magazine, Meacham is a pinhead.' Far left, we would debate. Pinhead? . Still, having started this literary discussion, we feel duty-bound to offer more-constructive criticism. Hence, these alternate titles for O'Reilly's book:

Judging by the number of calls we get in the Books department from self-published authors, the trend to self-publish is on the rise. Online resources and videos abound for how to publish anything from children’s books to memoirs to novels.

Is it possible to know the mind of China, a country with more than a billion people? Mark Leonard, executive director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has attempted to do just that in his recent book What Does China Think?

'We all have ideas about what we might do in a [public] emergency,' writes Amanda Ripley in 'The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why.' 'But we are probably wrong.'

Beautiful and sweet characterize Melissa Sweet's Tupelo Rides the Rails (Houghton Mifflin, 40 pp., $17; ages 4-8), a book about finding a place to belong. It should be a sad and scary day when Tupelo is abandoned by the side of the road. But although Tupelo is perplexed (and the reader will be, too - [...]

HE WAS once the ubiquitous psychiatrist who diagnosed viewers' faults from the comfort of the television sofa. But yesterday Dr Raj Persaud, a regular guest on programmes

NEVER work with children or animals, or so the old saying goes. But Edinburgh filmmakers Susan Wright and Catriona Craig threw out the rule book when they made their movie The

Like the Bible, it is one of the most widely read, revered and recited books in the world.