Harry Potter knockoffs abound on the Chinese market, with titles like “Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon,” and “Harry...

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Laura Albert, the fiction writer known as JT LeRoy, was found by a jury last month to have engaged in fraud by signing her nom de plume...

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The new musical “Bookends” came about when the woman who took Sidney Poitier home for dinner met the rare-book dealers who exposed...

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Let’s see how much he remembers: the guitarist Keith Richards is writing an autobiography to be published in the fall of 2010.

It wasn’t until Victoria Beckham was photographed carrying a copy of “Skinny Bitch” in May that the book started climbing the...

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Christine Kenneally’s lucid survey of the expanding field of language evolution is dedicated to solving what she calls “the hardest...

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Norma Gabler became the public face of a crusade with her husband to rid schoolbooks of content they considered antifamily, anti-American...

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Don't know if you've managed to catch Hardtalk Extra on the BBC on Fridays, but the past few weeks have provided a real feast for boo...

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Sandwiched between Costa winner Stef Penney and Harry Potter, Tan Twan Eng's The Gift of Rain at its highest point (56) so far on the...

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And talking about clicking things ... would you please click my Nuffnang ads in the side bar? It seems that at the moment I am getting the pay-by-click ones and only one or ...

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