Changes in the country's rural areas during the past 30 years have made farmland and village scenes unrecognizable for those who spent their childhood days there.
The debut novel from Jean Kwok draws on her own experiences as an immigrant to explore both sides of the American Dream.
An award-winning writer who has been called China's Dan Brown, talks about his works and his preferences.
U.S. investigative journalist Bob Woodward, who rose to fame reporting on the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, will release a new book on President Barack Obama in September, publisher Simon & Schuster said on Wednesday.
As a New Yorker, Joseph Mackin was enormously affected by the 9/11 attacks so it seemed natural to focus on this event when he wrote and to combine another issue high up in the America psyche -- plastic surgery.
A new book of record covers shows how musicians forged an identity and communicated with fans, using an art form that has sometimes endured longer than the music between the covers.
Cookbook author Jessica Seinfeld, wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, did not plagiarize techniques for sneaking healthy foods into child-friendly dishes, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
Here's a short list of books recommended by some of China's leading literary critics.
Like Sylvia Plath, whose recognizably-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, became a classic well after her suicide, Wang Xiaobo's deep essays on Chinese society and culture found a following only after his death in 1997.
Chinese writers are enjoying the best time for writing and living, declared former Culture Minister Wang Meng in a speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair last October.
The best-selling vampire themed "Twilight" book series has entered the top 10 list of books that U.S. schools and public libraries were asked to remove from their shelves in 2009.
It's the type of book that would make sailors blush, but don't go buying it for grandma. Welcome to the book of Chinese slang.