Creditor GE Capital's tentative commitment may be holding up Borders' bankruptcy filing Go bigger or go home: trailer for film adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: Part One Manchester, U.K.'s new International Anthony Burgess Foundation ... Read More »

Last week, the notoriously reticent and withdrawn British author, Martin Amis, appeared on a BBC book program called Faulks on Fiction, during which he mulled the possibility of writing for children: "I say, 'If I ... Read More »

It's been a good couple of weeks for posthumous manuscripts seeing publication. Last week, word broke about a magazine editor who had discovered a cache of unpublished Dashiell Hammett stories. This week, there is news ... Read More »

The regional shortlists for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize have been announced, and Canadian books have swept this year's nominations for best book and best first book for the Canadian and Caribbean region. The Canadian ... Read More »

The Man Booker Foundation will honour the late Beryl Bainbridge, a five-time Booker Prize nominee, with a special readers' choice award Japanese entrepreneurs take e-book publishing into their own hands ... and illegally scan their ... Read More »