All Books
- Can't and Won'tUncoiling a Booker Prize winner's tightly wound collection of short – at times very short – stories.
- Reader recommendation: FangirlMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- 'Gone Girl' trailer offers a glimpse into the film adaptation'Gone Girl' is based on the bestselling novel by Gillian Flynn.
- World Book Night: cops are called as Idaho teen hands out challenged bookOn World Book Night in Meridian, Idaho, police were summoned when a high school student and bookstore workers handed out copies of 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian' by Sherman Alexie.
- The Little Girl who Fought the Great DepressionWhy Shirley Temple was one of the most iconic figures of 1930s.
- Reader recommendation: The River of DoubtMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- New Shirley Jackson story is publishedThe piece, titled 'The Man in the Woods,' is now available on The New Yorker's website.
- 'The Hobbit': Third film in the series gets a new title'The Hobbit' director Peter Jackson recently announced that the planned title for the third and final film in the trilogy has been changed.
- Pushkin HillsA comedy of Russian art and politics finds a frustrated writer being torn apart at the seams.
- Reader recommendation: Women of VisionMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Bestselling books the week of 4/24/14, according to IndieBound* What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
- American SpartanJournalist Ann Scott Tyson examines the complicated life of Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant.
- Reader recommendation: Fortunate SonMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.
- Showtime series 'Penny Dreadful' brings together favorite Victorian literary characters'Dreadful' include such characters as Victor Frankenstein and Mina Harker of 'Dracula.'
- World Book Night arrives at Broadway musicals, baseball gameWorld Book Night was celebrated in the US on April 23.
- What are the top signs you're living in a Dickens novel?Mallory Ortberg, writer for the site The Toast, poked fun at Dickens plotlines with such signs as 'You have only to see a letter once, but you will remember the hand that wrote it for the rest of your days.' What signs do you think indicate that you've stumbled into a Dickens book?
- Will an unpublished work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez be released?An editor for Penguin Random House Mexico says there is an unpublished manuscript by Garcia Marquez but that the author's family has not yet decided what to do.
- A Fighting ChanceMassachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has a good story to tell and she tells it well.
- 'The Fault in Our Stars': Vote on Tumblr to direct movie publicity tourA campaign titled Demand Our Stars has 'Fault' fans voting to determine which states 'Fault' author John Green and the stars of the film will visit.
- Reader recommendation: Servants of AllahMonitor readers share their favorite book picks.