Philip Roth a no-show, but reads on camera at the Man Booker International Prize ceremony Margaret Atwood is top fantasy guest for Canada Day burgers and beers Users can shake the new Penguin Classics iPhone ... Read More »

According to a Canadian family history website, Kate Middleton is related to Jane Austen Record-breaking online ticket sales causes chaos for Edinburgh book festival Random House teams up with Politico to publish 2012 election e-books ... Read More »

Ann Patchett is a Guggenheim fellow and the best-selling author of novels such as Bel Canto and Run. According to an interview in the Boston Phoenix, she may be about to add another line to ... Read More »

Aldous Huxley's psychedelic life Rachel Shteir's new book looks at the cultural history of shoplifting Bomb threat at Borders ... Read More »

The circumstances surrounding the death of poet and playwright Federico Garcìa Lorca, who was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, have long been shrouded in controversy. The prevailing wisdom is that he was killed for ... Read More »

Here are just a few of the literary events happening in the coming week: Poet Maureen Hynes reads from her latest collection Marrow, Willow, The People's Co-op Bookstore, Vancouver (June 24, 7 p.m., free) Novelist ... Read More »