Robert Smith of The Cure is another writer with a sophisticated and literary way with words. Part of the allure of The Cure ...

Joel Bigman’s The Second Journey connects Jewish and Chinese folklore through a creative reinterpretation of ancient myths ...

Favorite traditions light up the season, including “Messiah”s, “Nutcracker”s, Scrooge, James Joyce, the Rockettes, and more.

Movies were never bigger than they were in the 1980s. Action heroes such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone had ...

What’s true asceticism? It’s always confused thinkers how monks and poets sworn to celibacy created art featuring worldly ...

An author who penned a retelling of "Huckleberry Finn" — through the perspective of the escaped slave's character— has won ...

When I would ask my first-year college students to name a short story they remembered (and liked), the most popular choice, ...

John Magaro on telling the story of how ABC's broadcast team covered terrorists' massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich ...

USC professor Percival Everett wins the National Book Award for Fiction for 'James,' a retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn' from ...

Percival Everett’s new novel, “James,” a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of Huck’s enslaved companion, won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday.

July, whose second novel, All Fours, came out in the spring, is one of five authors nominated for a National Book Award for ...