NEW YORK -- Richard Nelson Current, a prolific and award-winning Abraham Lincoln scholar who for decades was a leader in his field and helped shape a ...

I have just arrived. I am standing in the square in the small Swiss valley town of Meiringen. On all sides, fir trees and high alpine meadows give way...

This is part of our ongoing series asking authors one simple question: Where do you like to read?Today's response comes from T.C. Boyle: I’d like...

Timothy Ferriss is a publishing phenomenon. His first book, The 4 Hour Workweek, used Google Adwords to test out its title, and became a NYT number on...

We work hard at HuffPost - and we also love to read in our downtime. Here's what our staff love to read to help them relax. What do you read to calm y...

Like physical books, ebooks have weight. A computer scientist at UC Berkeley calculated as much in 2011, finding that a 4GB ebook reader filled with 3...

The hardest part of going on holiday is choosing which books to take with you.

Will it be cigarettes: none; alcohol units: none; weight: off the charts; baby: imminent, as Bridget Jones returns for a "different phase" of London l...

This letter, taken from Kurt Vonnegut: Letters ($35, Delacorte), was written at a low point in Vonnegut's finances. In it, he proposes a children’s...

Philip Roth, the famous American novelist, has written his last book. That is, according to an interview published last month in the French magazine L...

Howard Schatz is a photographer and artist who has captured the human body in many different ways. Dancers, nudes, swimmers, actors, pregnant women......

The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg Peter Other Press, $27.95 October 23, 2012 What is it about? Peter is a 14-year-old boy who live...

The Word of the Year 2012, according to the Oxford American Dictionaries, is GIF. “The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used...

NEW YORK -- Jack Gilbert, a prize-winning poet known for his clear and subtle verse, has died at age 87. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Gil...

The National Book Award winners will be announced tonight in New York City. The closest thing U.S. publishing has to the Academy Awards, the prizes ar...

Freddie Mercury was a musician, a performer, an icon. A new book, Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender ($34.99, Insight Editions) contains photographs...

Mastery by Robert Greene ($28.95, Viking) is the latest book from the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strateg...

On May 15, 2012, Aday.org asked people around the world to pick up their cameras to photograph daily life. More than 100,000 images were submitted fr...

Roughly two weeks ago in the dining room of a Jewish deli on the Upper West Side (whose name, for legal reasons, must remain undisclosed) I served Phi...

The TV critic Alan Sepinwall has a new book coming out, The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Fore...

The word of the year, according to Dictionary.com, is 'Bluster', we can exclusively reveal. Dictionary.com defines the word thusly: 1. to roar an...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Barely known in a literary field dominated by brand names like "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games," William Alexander scored the National...

Hollywood was buzzing last week that one of the literary world's powerful firms, the Wylie Agency--which reps powerhouse authors from Martin Amis to S...

Mr. Roth hasn't given up writing entirely. He is collaborating on a novella, via e-mail, with the 8-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend, and he h...

An Amazon boycott in the UK is being called for by a national newspaper, while a former member of the British cabinet promises to "put away my Kindle"...