Literature

Gates Foundation recruits Pulitzer-winning writer, Academy Award-winning filmmaker and others for vaccination campaign.

On the occasion of Harper Lee's long-awaited second novel, read our 1961 story on the acclaimed author.

This is the first novel published by the reclusive author since the 1960 classic 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Shouts and murmurs at the Jaipur Literary Festival.

These men are not Lord Voldemort, despite the children, bookstore clerks and brother-in-laws who repeatedly mistake them as such.

A new book from David Foster Wallace, six years after his death, revives the debate about his greatness...and why so many otherwise smart readers can't see it.

As the playwright's 400th anniversary approaches, the campaign to discredit the Shakespeare industry is brewing

Flying cars should be taking over any minute now, right?

A pro-government newspaper accused Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak of being part of an 'international literature lobby

Though far from exhaustive, this twenty-book list is a small glimpse at the books we read and loved in 2014.

Louise Glück, Evan Osnos and Jacqueline Woodson were also winners at the National Book Foundation's annual awards.

An American writer hasn't won the Nobel Prize for literature since 1993, when the Swedish Academy bestowed the honor on Toni Morrison. Here's a list of American writers most likely to win the award, which cannot be given posthumously and encompasses an entire body of work.

Harry Potter author goes into depth about Umbridge's time at the Ministry of Magic, her thoroughly unpleasant appointment at Hogwarts and her eventual trial and conviction upon Voldemort's defeat.

NPR announces the shortlists of contenders for the prestigious prizes in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature

Modiano wrote often about the Nazi occupation of France and such subjects as memory, identity and time

Is a new Potter book coming out? Probably not.

The shortcomings of Joseph O'Neill's latest novel, "The Dog," mirror those of the Obama administration

Time to ditch the Nordic knits – the darkest new drama adaptations are coming out of southern Europe

The little-known friendship of two eccentric geniuses, bon viveurs, gamblers and outsiders

Questions about national identity have prompted a furious debate about what children should read at school

A spate of recent novels by prominent writers paint a bleak vision of tomorrow – and today

At almost 800 pages, The Goldfinch is Donna Tartt's longest book yet and almost certainly her least mature one, showing a regression from The Secret History in almost every way in which a novel can be judged.

The son of Pat and Bill Buckley may not have always been happy, but he was never bored.