Books

March 28 2013 4:58 AM

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot in the head, plans to pen her life story.

January 25 2013 4:50 PM

Stephen King has injected himself into the American debate over gun control with a new essay titled “Guns.” The 25-page essay includes possible solutions to the mass-shooting epidemic that has plagued the nation but also announces King’s decision to remove his first novel, "Rage," from bookshelves.

November 20 2012 12:38 PM

Russian sci-fi writer Boris Strugatsky died on Monday at 79.

October 16 2012 5:08 PM

"Downton Abbey" star Dan Stevens was in London on Tuesday to help announce the winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize. The award went to Hilary Mantel for "Bring up the Bodies."

October 11 2012 7:54 AM

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 was awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, who in his dozens of stories and novels uses magic realism to merge folk tales, China’s history and the contemporary, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.

October 08 2012 5:16 AM

Can a country as famously tolerant, integrated and prosperous as Norway feel safe again, now that Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the misfortune that hit Norway July 22 last year in the form of two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks, is behind bars serving his 21-year sentence? Maybe not. “There is a real chance that 7/22 can happen again,” Kjetil Stormark the Norwegian author of the recently released book, “The Oslo Killer Files: Private emails of a mass murderer,” told the International Business Times in an email interview.

September 30 2012 11:17 PM

Banned Books Week -- an annual observance sponsored by the American Library Association and other groups to fight censorship -- begins Sunday and ends Oct. 6. Banned Books Week events will be held across the nation and online in a celebration of literature. So, to fight censorship and celebrate the week yourself, why not learn more about the most challenged books of 2011?

September 21 2012 3:56 PM

Stephen King announced the release date this week for his “Doctor Sleep,” the long-awaited sequel to “The Shining.” “Doctor Sleep” will be published Sept. 24, 2013, almost 40 years after horror fans first read about Jack Torrance and his family going crazy while stuck at the Overlook Hotel.

September 20 2012 11:43 AM

Almost 15 years after a sex scandal that not only jilted the White House but international policy during the Clinton administration, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is reportedly planning to release a tell-all book documenting her alleged affair with former President Bill Clinton in a revenge attempt.