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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