Two Tony Award Winners Hope to Bring “The Shining” to Broadway
A new stage adaptation of Stephen King’s celebrated novel is in the works
Amazon Is Selling Altered Versions of Orwell's '1984'
From bizarre yet harmless typos to unauthorized edits, Amazon's fake books are rewriting literary history
On the Growing Influence of Barack Obama, Literary Tastemaker
Readers everywhere rejoiced when the former president dropped his summer reading list last week
Where Great Surfing Meets Robinson Crusoe
Alejandro Selkirk Island, where epic waves and literary history meet
Digital Editions of J. D. Salinger’s Books Due Out This Week
The literary icon’s work had previously been unavailable as e-books
Inside the Weird World of Shakespeare Conspiracy Theories
Charlie Chaplin, Helen Keller and Supreme Court justices are all counted among those that don't believe the hype
Nobel Prize-Winning Author Toni Morrison Dead at 88
One of the most acclaimed American writers of the 20th century
Kevin Spacey Reads Poetry at National Roman Museum
Disgraced actor inhabits character of wounded boxer
The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for August
Prestige TV, Madden 20 and the most memorable horror flick since "Get Out", incoming
The 7 Books You Should Read This August
From a search for faith in the heartland to the debut title from the "voice of a generation," these books are worth picking up
The Year’s Bestselling Debut Novel Is Hiding a Dark History
The success of Delia Owens' first novel has largely obscured her relationship to the decades-old murder in Africa that may have influenced it
Another Tourist Has Died Seeking the “Into the Wild” Bus
River crossing proves fatal on a hazardous trek
6 Thrilling Books About Real-Life Corruption
Where money and power collide, and ethics are nowhere to be found
Revisiting Gore Vidal’s Crime Fiction
How a trio of subversive mystery novels helped reinvent the famed author
Why Raymond Chandler Still Matters
Eighty years after the publication of "The Big Sleep," there must be something about Chandler’s books that transcends their outdatedness
The Great American Beer Novel Is Here, and We Talked to the Guy Who Wrote It
J. Ryan Stradal's "The Lager Queen of Minnesota" is a novel about family, Minnesota and light beer