entertainment - "book"

Prime Minister Gordon Brown appears as a surprise guest to help open this year's Edinburgh book Festival.

Patricia Nell Warren, author of the upcoming book The Lavender Locker Room, talks about gay athletes in pro sports. Nell Warren is best known for her novel The Front Runner,published in 1974.

The federal case against people connected with former US-facing sportsbook site BetOnSports moved forward with the acceptance of guilty pleas from three relatively minor defendants on Wednesday. The three Florida defendants...

AP - Sir Ben Kingsley has clothed himself in the roles of Jewish bookkeeper, Iranian colonel, brutal British gangster ? and Gandhi.

A new medical textbook — published by the military — uses cases from Iraq and Afghanistan to train trauma surgeons. The book features disturbing images, yet also illustrates just how many critical advances have emerged from the theater of war.

A book featuring an untitled Harry Potter prequel by JK Rowling became the fastest-selling collection of short stories when its print run virtually sold out in just one day.

It makes city governments cringe. But graffiti can be provocative, inspiring and poetic-sometimes even a tool for public discourse. That's what San Francisco designers Axel Albin and Josh Kamler say in their new book, 'Written on the City.' They've compiled their favorite 'message graffiti' from cities around the globe-the musings, rants, political statements and cultural observations of artists who risk jail to have their voices heard. The best examples are poignant ('One week that we've been separated,' reads an image of two lovers), funny ('You looked better on MySpace,' jokes another) and thought-provoking ('Create beautiful children. Marry an Arab,' says a wall in Tel Aviv). The original spray paintings are likely covered up by now: cities spend millions each year to do so. But the authors believe their photographs can tell us something about the dialogue happening around us. 'People want to talk about graffiti as this kind of raw, urban, danger-of-the-city kind of thing,' says Al

It took China just one night to make its mark on Olympic and TV history.

The best-selling book in China right now is 'The Tibet Code,' a novel whose title is a deliberate knockoff of you-know-what. But Chinese publishing is mostly in the doldrums.