And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader. Taking his stand before the time of St. Ireænus seems somewhat risky to me, if not downright reckless. I did, however, reflect that there

To add to our previous post on the court case currently taking place in New York between "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. and RDR Books, comes news that the author of the book in question told the court

at the Complete Review

The National Library is to reprint out-of-print indigenous language books and has called on the public to help identify these books.

The blurb in Stuart Chase's 1938 book, "The tyranny of words" reads: "This eminently useful analysis of language continues to exert a forceful influence, directing our choice and employment of words toward accurate, complete, and readily understood communication."

What people are saying about the latest addition to leading texts on Nigerian oil and gas laws, NIGERIAN LAWS, CASES & MATERIALS ON OIL & GAS. The text is a current, fully indexed easy to use loose leaf work on

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review-overview of Keith 'n+1' Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men.

It's disappointing to hear that, due to the ill health of the Nobel laureate that has prevented him from travelling to New York, the Thursday event at which Ruth Franklin was to introduce and interview Kertesz Imre (and Andras Schiff

With the prominent place of Arab literature at the on-going London Book Fair (running through tomorrow) Boyd Tonkin wonders: Is the Arab world ready for a literary revolution ? in The Independent.

Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction has won another honor: the book has won the Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with

Sophie Dahl, the granddaughter of bestselling author Roald Dahl (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) and Patricia Neal, talks about her past life as a plus-size model and her current careeras an author.Q: Did having writers in your family lead

British pop star Lily Allen has withdrawnas a judge of the Orange Broadband Prize for Literature. The literati is thrilled, because they never thought a pop star should be judging literature anyway. Lily Allen was never the most obvious pick