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Mr. Beatty’s novel is told from the view of a young isolated black man born on outskirts of Los Angeles who lands before the Supreme Court in a race trial appeal.

Paula Hawkins' hit thriller cools off 'Fifty Shades.'        

Proprietor Garrison Keillor offers $5,000 in prizes for epistolary poems. The theme of this year's competition is "Dear You."

HEA contributor and bestselling romance author Donna Kauffman recaps last night's NCIS.        

The Norwegian author of the six-part autobiographical novel “My Struggle” follows the trail of the first Europeans to set foot in North America. First of two parts.

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon writes a memoir.        

MYSTERIES: Five tales to keep you reading far into the night.

HEA asks Avery Flynn to binge-watch season one of 'Buffy' and then report back.        

PaperbackFiction1. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY(Vintage, $15.95). By E. L. James. The first of a British e-book erotic trilogy that became a publishing phenomenon. [73]2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDRead full article >>

A series of photos taken by Alex Cornell in Antarctica captures an unusual sight: a bright blue iceberg that had recently flipped over.

From prehistoric rock carvings to Sartre and Hemingway, humans have taken to the slopes for eons.

The Welches on the problems with business, the state of global competition and their coming book on how to succeed.

The protagonist of David Duchovny’s debut novel is a talking cow who sets out for India.

In Tom McCarthy’s novel, a ‘corporate anthropologist’ takes on the habits of homogenized global consumers.

Peter Diamandis is nothing if not an optimist. His first book, Abundance, was subtitled "the future is better than you think." Where other people are concerned about water shortages, Diamandissees a planet covered almost entirely with water that just needs the right technology to make it accessible. Where others worry about growing income inequality, he sees a day when technology will enable the "haves" and the "have nots" to become the "haves" and the "super haves."Read full article >>

Mr. Ishiguro explains why it took him so long to finish his new book, “The Buried Giant,” which wanders into George R. R. Martin and Tolkien territory.