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  • Biographer says Buck knew 'where the bodies were buried'

    2010-06-04 09:55

    Hilary Spurling insists that despite appearances Western publishers have not suddenly become obsessed with Pearl S. Buck.

  • Novel atonement

    2010-06-04 09:53

    Anchee Min rewrites history in her latest book Pearl of China, an imaginative retelling of the life of Pearl S. Buck.

  • Readers in a flap over new issue of revered magazine

    2010-06-04 09:48

    The country's most established literary magazine, Harvest, has caused quite a stir with its spring-summer issue, for carrying a novel by Guo Jingming in its Novels Special.

  • Book asks: Is Internet ruining our minds?

    2010-06-04 09:35

    When author Nicholas Carr began researching his book on whether the Internet is ruining our minds, he restricted his online access and e-mail and turned off his Twitter and Facebook accounts.

  • Book Talk: Cullen changes book on finding portrait

    2010-06-03 08:56

    Author Lynn Cullen began writing her latest novel about a despised Spanish king but her discovery of a mysterious portrait changed everything.

  • A NASCAR experience that upset many Southern folk

    2010-06-02 10:16

    Rarely do we know about the lives of the pilots who fly us around the world.

  • German writer brings message of hope

    2010-05-29 07:44

    Katrin Schmidt seems the stereotype of an intellectual - serious, cool, and reticent. The 52-year-old German writer only smiled once, and then just faintly, during the two-hour salon with Beijing's literature enthusiasts.

  • J.G. Farrell wins "lost" Booker award for Troubles

    2010-05-20 09:36

    J.G. Farrell was named on Wednesday the winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize, devised to honor writers who were not eligible for Britain's top literary award due to a rule change 40 years ago.

  • Book Talk: Author seeks the secret to writing a good novel

    2010-05-19 13:27

    Ever wanted to know the secret to writing a good novel? Peruvian-American novelist Daniel Alarcon set out to find the answer but ended up finding that the secret is that there really is no secret.

  • Dialogue helps explain China's starring role

    2010-05-14 10:40

    China's rise on the world stage is like a prosperous family moving into a new town.

  • 'Hope of the East'

    2010-05-14 10:36

    Indian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's soothing works are once again speaking to Chinese readers, caught in the swift currents of a society undergoing frenetic change.

  • Sarah Palin lauds "family, faith and flag" in new book

    2010-05-12 11:38

    Republican firebrand Sarah Palin is leaving readers in little doubt about where her allegiances lie with her latest book to be titled "America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag."

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