Publishing giant HarperCollins announced that electronic copies of select books are available for free download from its site.

Turkish ultra-nationalists had plotted to kill Orhan Pamuk and others in an effort to cause political chaos. Pamuk discussed the political novel in a recent interview.

The great American poet's poor penmanship is causing headaches and embarrassment for scholars.

French novelist, critic, and screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet lived at the forefront of the Parisian literary avant-garde.

Morrison backs Obama while Angelou supports Clinton, further illustrating the Democratic Party's internal divisions.

Robert Fisk's name appears on the cover of an adoring biography of Iraq's former leader — but he didn't write the book.

A new volume from Everyman's Library inspires critics to place the dark-humored Flann O'Brien in a holy trinity of Irish modernists with Beckett and Joyce.

Hollywood's successful auteurs adapt Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union for the big screen.

A recording of Ginsberg reading his famous poem at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, is unearthed.

Chinua Achebe reflects on his modest ambitions and welcome success.

A copy of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives is confiscated in a Texan prison, on on the grounds that it might "encourage homosexual or deviant criminal sexual behavior" and be "detrimental to the offender's rehabilitation."

Bill Moyers compiles suggestions of books the next president should read.

The latest "book ripper" isn't keeping publishing executives up at night.

A jaw-dropping bookcase-staircase combination by Levitate Architects.

The Morning News announces the nominees for its fourth-annual Tournament of Books.

The National Book Critics Circle releases its Winter "Good Reads" list; in evidence that great minds meld, Boldtype has recommended 8 out of the 10 fiction and nonfiction titles.