If this is the kind of country-rock that is the biggest selling genre in America then we should embrace our pop-chart huggers.

The longlist for the will be announced today, and you should be able to find it at the official site later in the day (it's not up yet as I write this). The public announcement is only due later in

In the Saudi Gazette Susannah Tarbush reports on the recent of the Caine Prize for African Writing, in .

The ridiculously named Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2009 has gone to Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (see The Penguin Press , or get your copy from or ), and Andrew Hill

talks to Anna Metcalfe in this week's -feature in the Financial Times. Her answer to one question is a familiar one (i.e. we've heard it from her before), but still worth repeatingWhat is the best piece of advice a parent

Another article about Korean literature and the relative lack of attention it gets abroad, as Han Sang-hee reports in The Korea Times that maybe (with a bit of translation) they could be . As if that were all that counted,

The perfect name is one of the first and most important gifts parents can give their children - and often one of the most challenging decisions of parenthood. Expectant parents who want their child's name to be meaningful will find

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In Boys Should Be Boys, one of our most trusted authorities helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enable today's boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorrow.

Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients

New York Times bestselling author Deborah Tannen is renowned for illuminating the way we communicate - and revolutionizing relationships in the process. What she did for women and men in You Just Don't Understand, and mothers and daughters in You're

In September 1979, my father spoke a single sentence that changed my life. I had graduated from Mt. Holyoke College earlier in the year and had been rejected from several medical schools, so I was living at home pondering Plan