The Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington is caught reusing the same praise for two separate book blurbs.

A new biography delves into the author's private collection.

In the wake of a university professor's proposal for misspelling amnesty, the Scotsman's Ruth Walker argues why proper spelling is essential.

Librarians and literary directors debate the fate of the late fee on borrowed books.

Following a property dispute with the heirs of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, Penguin has been granted publishing rights over ten of the author's early works.

On the 400th anniversary of John Milton's birth, Slate examines the British writer's combined contribution to poetry and speech.

Lee Israel, a once-acclaimed biographer who forged and stole hundreds of letters by famous authors, has just published Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Letters of a Literary Forger.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, Bookseller magazine has opened a public poll to select the most peculiar title of the last 30 years.

Random House announced that it has abandoned plans to publish The Jewel of Medina, a book about the prophet Muhammad's young bride A'isha, out of concern for violent repercussions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the formerly exiled Russian novelist and historian famous for his outspoken writings, passed away on August 3.

Many of George Orwell's diary entries will be published as a blog, each corresponding to the day he wrote them 70 years ago.