Socialite and sex tape star Kim Kardashian celebrated her 14th birthday party at Michael Jackson's former Neverland Ranch home in California because she was dating the pop superstar's nephew at the time." /> Read more!
Heroes star Hayden Panettiere violently clashed with Japanese fishermen as she tried to save dolphins from slaughter. The 18-year-old actress disrupted an annual dolphin hunt by intercepting a fishing boat - and was almost struck by its boat hook." />
The Korea Times has announced the 38th Korean Literature Translation Award Winners, with Mun Hyung-ryul's Bicyling Over the Ocean, translated by John Hak-sung Cha the Grand Prize winner in the fiction category.
The November Open Letters is up, with Sam Sacks' review of Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky, as well as our favourite feature, their 'Peer Review', where this month ... Sam Sacks looks at the critical reactions to Philip
Amos Oz picked up his Prince of Asturias Award a couple of days ago, and The Los Angeles Times prints Literature's antidote to hate, adapted from the acceptance speech he gave.
In Nobel cause in Al-Ahram Weekly Nahed Nassr takes the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Doris Lessing as an occasion to ask 'the local literati about the position of Arabic literature in the world today'.
Allan Massie reviews Tapping Hitler's Generals ed by Sonke Neitzel, tr by Geoffrey Brooks and Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler's Architect by Joachim Fest
Gary Graff of Billboard.com reports: KORN frontman Jonathan Davis is planning a CD/DVD of his upcoming solo tour — and will make it available in time for the start of the outing.