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Author Jag Bhalla catalogs the unique turns of phrase that different cultures use in his new book I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears. ()
A new interactive Web site called BookGlutton.com could mark a change in how we read books. ()
Nathan Rabin shares a few life lessons from books about three of his personal American heroes. ()
July 2, 2009 · In a society driven toward endless economic progress, what's the value of those who can't or won't contribute? Ninni Holmqvist's thought-provoking, compulsively readable The Unit provides a dark vision of one possible answer. ()
July 1, 2009 · In the novel Touch, Francine Prose tells the story of the conflicting accounts that arise after a 14-year-old girl is groped by three male friends on a school bus. ()
July 1, 2009 · Author Kathryn Stockett explores racial tensions in the Deep South from three different perspectives in her novel The Help. Karen Grigsby Bates says if you read one book this summer, this should be it. ()
July 1, 2009 · Zombies, long a horror-movie staple, are taking bigger bites out of pop culture, infecting books, banking, even our vocabulary. Beth Accomando surveys a genre trope that refuses to die. ()
July 1, 2009 · In the book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, author Jeff Sharlet examines the power wielded by the secret Christian group known as The Family or The Fellowship. ()
June 30, 2009 · Petina Gappah's richly observed stories in An Elegy for Easterly capture a world tourists could never hope to see, of people, rich and poor, living their lives in the surreal shadow of Zimbabwean President Mugabe's regime. ()
June 27, 2009 · The Photographer is an unusual graphic novel that combines photos and illustrations to tell the story of a photojournalist's harrowing trip to Afghanistan with a medical team from Doctors Without Borders. ()
June 26, 2009 · A delicious comedy of miscommunication, Percival Everett's I Am Not Sidney Poitier takes on racism and its absurdities. It's a freewheeling coming-of-age, and one of the funniest, most original stories to be published in years. ()
June 30, 2009 · San Jose State University's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest honors bad writing. This year's winner is 55-year-old David McKenzie of Federal Way, Wash., who beat out hundreds of entries from around the world for crafting the worst-written beginning to an imaginary novel. McKenzie discusses his win. ()
June 30, 2009 · Writer Aravind Adiga won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for his novel The White Tiger. Now, he has a book of 14 short stories set between the assassinations of two Indian leaders — one in 1984 and the other in 1991. Alan Cheuse says that in Between the Assassinations, Adiga reveals great breadth and depth in the hearts of his characters. ()
June 24, 2009 · Nonfiction can be every bit as exhilarating and illuminating as novels. You just have to pick the right books. Here, then, are five works of history, journalism and biography that will shock, inform and delight. ()
June 25, 2009 · Journalist Bradley Graham discusses the successes and failures of former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld. Graham is the author of By His Own Rules, a lengthy new biography of Rumsfeld. ()
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