Book Talk: Booker nominee Thayil offers bleak Bombay portrait
(Reuters) – Jeet Thayil, one of the nominees for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for the year’s best novel in English, paints a stark portrait...
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Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Chinese author Mo Yan has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature. A prolific author, Mo has published dozens of short stories, with his...
Japan author, “spooky” science up for cut-price Nobels
(Reuters) – A Japanese author who writes of love and isolation, researchers into “spooky” quantum physics and experts on economic inequality have all been tipped...
Using his own blood, New York artist paints “Resurrection” exhibit
(Reuters) – Many artists claim to put their blood, sweat and tears into their work, but Vincent Castiglia means it: he paints with his own...
Ang Lee’s 3D ‘Life of Pi’ opens NY film festival
(Reuters) – Once considered impossible to make, the big-screen 3D adaptation of the bestselling novel “Life of Pi” opened the 50th New York Film Festival...
Rushdie says writers losing influence in West
(Reuters) – Salman Rushdie believes literature has lost much of its influence in the West, and movie stars like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie have...
Signed JK Rowling ‘Casual Vacancy’ Books Sold For £1000 Online
Opportunists flog ‘The Casual Vacancy’ on eBay Signed copies of JK Rowling’s new novel ‘The Casual Vacancy’ are being flogged for up to £1,000 online....
Rowling “obsessed” with death, reads reviews later
(Reuters) – What does the author of the most eagerly awaited book of the year do on publication day? If you are J.K. Rowling, whose...
“Original Mona Lisa” given Geneva launch
(Reuters) – A Swiss-based art foundation on Thursday unveiled what it argues is Leonardo da Vinci’s original “Mona Lisa”, backing its claim with evidence from...
Rowling’s adult novel lacks magic, some critics say
(Reuters) – J.K. Rowling’s first foray into adult fiction was bound to be compared to her wildly successful Harry Potter series, and, while “The Casual...