TS Eliot's poem The Waste Land may have made him an international literary star but 12 months after it was published he was penniless exhausted and on the verge of a breakdown.

Richard Dorment on the art publishing event of the decade: the marvellous letters of Vincent van Gogh which reveal his creative vitality as well as his loneliness

Nicholas Shakespeare finds much frothiness in Something Sensational to Read in the Train: the Diary of a Lifetime the journals of the voice of Opal Fruits and the founder of the Teddy Bear Museum who rubbed knees with Princess Anne

Stephen King's thrilling new novel about an American town taken over by crazed fascists reviewed by Lewis Jones

Our literary insider Joe Allston on the trials of Bookerwinner Aravind Adiga Lynda LaPlante's weird logic and John Le Carré's defection to Penguin

Genevieve Fox reports on an international women only book club in Switzerland. Should they be reading Etiquette for Girls? Or Feminism for Beginners?

More than ever, our national parks are being discovered and rediscovered by travelers who want to spend their vacations appreciating nature, watching wildlife, and taking adventure trips. But as the number of visitors to the parks increases, so does stres

There are two kinds of people roaming the far fringes of the world: Mormon missionaries and Chinese businessmen. I know this because for a long while I lived off the map, flitting from island to island in the South Pacific,

Sarah Palin was a $1.25 million advance for her upcoming autobiography Going Rogue. For a politician known more for her folksy expressions than her literary prowess, Sarah Palin has made enough money on her yet unpublished first book to make

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Daniel Mandishona's White Gods, Black Demons is an anthology of 10 short stories published under the Weaver Press stable. Its magic is that it feels startlingly familiar, whatever your politics may be. Each portrait in the 110-page collection is the

Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe has recorded the narration for the 2010 Holocaust Memorial Day short film "Legacy of Hope."

Since it's now October 30th, JK Rowling has updated her web site to wish our favorite mom, Mrs. Molly Weasley, a happy birthday.

Motion Theory give us 'Featherhead' a debut album loaded with top notch alt prog rock

Fans of Dragonforce will love this band - the album is crammed with intricate mind-blowing melodies!

Chinese poet Li Shizheng, who writes under the pen-name Duo Duo (which is even prettier in Chinese: ), has been named the winner of the estimable for 2010; see, for example, The Norman Transcript's report, . (As I've mentioned before:

The Times (London) gives the new translation of Günter Grass' The Tin Drum by Breon Mitchell review-coverage of the sort one might expect from Sam Tanenhaus at the NYTBR: it's the last title mentioned by Kate Saunders in her very

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The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Iraqi author Ali Bader's .

In the Wall Street Journal Vanessa Fuhrmans finds that , as:In much of Europe, the discount-pricing battle that has erupted among Wal-Mart Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Target Corp. could never happen because most major publishing markets, with the exception of