Fiction Literature

Alchemy for beginners

Mercurius: the Marriage of Heaven and HellPatrick Harpur Squeeze Press, 512pp, £9.99 Are alchemists nice people? It is hard to say, as they are all so secretive. None of my friends admits to being an alchemist, though I dare...

New Rowling book goes straight to No. 1

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard," a new book by J.K. Rowling, is published Thursday While the fanfare that greeted the Potter novels is absent, expectations are high Britain's Waterstone's book store chain expects it will go...

A Noise Within presents 'Oliver Twist' - Dec 04, 2008 8 p.m. or 7 p.m. or 2 p.m. @ A Noise...

A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed repertory theatre company, continues its 17th season with the Southern California premiere of Neil Bartlett 's wildly theatrical treatment of Charles Dickens ' classic "Oliver Twist,"...

The 10 best books of 2008

The editors of the Book Review have selected these titles from the list of 100 Notable Books of 2008. FICTION DANGEROUS LAUGHTER Thirteen Stories By Steven Millhauser Alfred A. Knopf In his first collection in five years, a...

Laura Miller answers 20 questions

Popular writer, journalist discusses inspirations in literary profession Media Credit: Courtesy of MCT Campus Critic Laura Miller will debut her first novel, "The Magician's Book," this month. Cofounder of Salon.com, where she...

'Twilight' Star Jackson Rathbone Relishes His First Leading-Man Role In 'Dread'

'I like roles that I can sink my teeth into,' actor says from horror film's London set. by Larry Carroll, with reporting by James Barnes is drenched in blood from head to toe, and being dragged down a flight of cellar stairs....

Glenn Beck?s No. 1 New York Times Best-Selling Novel The Christmas Sweater Comes to Life LIVE on...

Glenn Beck?s No. 1 New York Times Best-Selling Novel The Christmas Sweater Comes to Life LIVE on the Big Screen in Time for the Holiday SeasonCENTENNIAL, Colo.CO-GLENN-BECK/XMAS-SWTER CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--...

100 notable books of 2008

23 hrs ago

The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since Dec. 2, 2007, when we published our previous Notables list. The life of this novel's heroine — a first lady who comes to realize, at the height of the Iraq war,...

New in paper: Grafton's 'T,' 'Provence A-Z'

T Is for Trespass is the 20th in Sue Grafton's series. T Is for Trespass by Sue Grafton (Berkley, $7.99, fiction, reprint). P.I. Kinsey Millhone must protect her elderly neighbor from a crazed caretaker in the 20th "alphabet"...

Office's John Krasinski Moonlights as Sundance Kid (E! Online)

Natalie Finn Natalie Finn – 1 hr 50 mins ago E! Online – Office's John Krasinski Moonlights as Sundance Kid(E! Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, the writing-directing debut of The Office star John Krasinski, has been announced...