Literature

23.05.2012 19:39 12 comments X-tra! Marvel’s Astonishing Gay Men to marry It's the words a million girls might hope to hear: Will you marry me? But this time the wedding bells will ring for Marvel Comics' first openly gay hero Northstar and his boyfriend.		15.05.2012 14:18 Who Writes to the Colonel? Marquez death rumor reappears The man behind One Hundred Years of Solitude, Nobel Prize-winning Colombian wordsmith Gabriel García Márquez has become the subject of a hoax… again. Reports that the 85-year-old novelist was dead came as a bombshell on Twitter.
30.04.2012 15:06 Pamuk gets his bric-a-brac sorted Museums were once dubbed the “cemeteries of the arts”, but this one is different. The Museum of Innocence opened in Istanbul by the Nobel-prize winning novelist Orhan Pamuk features a variety of relics described in his novel about love.		26.04.2012 15:49 23 comments German Jews: Republishing Mein Kampf ‘good idea’ Germany is set to republish Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf for the first time since World War II. The new edition will contain historians’ commentaries. The country’s Jewish community said the milestone decision was a "good idea".
23.04.2012 20:35 5 comments Panicky in the UK: PC parents target kids’ books Timeless children’s classics, among them such favorites as The Nutcracker and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have reportedly been removed from public libraries in the UK after a number of parents suddenly found the books “politically incorrect”.		21.04.2012 18:01 14 comments Lenin still wanted and translated Russian is not “lost in translation”. On the contrary, it appears to be one of the most popular and translated languages in the world, with thanks in part to the rich heritage of the Father of the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin.
20.04.2012 14:24 1 comment Battle for book comeback: Biblionight to sweep Russia If curling up with a book has become a long forgotten habit, Russia’s first Biblionight should put things to rights, as the country's libraries are set to stay open all night with some special page-turning events.		19.04.2012 19:23 Marquez on the Metro: Moscow’s latest enterTRAINment Love reading in the underground? Well, the Moscow Metro is sparing you the burden of carrying around books or electronic reading devices, with poetry from Gabriel García Marquez there for you to enjoy – right on the carriage walls.
18.04.2012 16:40 5 comments Rush in the Russian! Out with the foreign, in with the native! Russian language usage is due for a big clean-up, with unnecessary loanwords forcibly cut as the country’s Education and Science Ministry launches an epic revamp – or, should we say, a language Perestroika.		17.04.2012 19:00 2 comments Britain buys Europe's oldest book for $14 million Britain’s National Library has bought Europe's oldest fully surviving book, the St. Cuthbert Gospel dating back to the 7th century. The purchase was worth a hefty $14 million.
17.04.2012 16:50 1 comment Happy as Harry: Online Potter world to bewitch fans If you’ve read the Harry Potter books, watched the films, bought the T-shirt and are still hankering for happenings from Hogwarts – this is for you. The series’ author J. K. Rowling has teamed up with Sony to launch an online Mecca for Potter fans.		12.04.2012 19:25 William Boyd to write new James Bond novel The next spy novel about agent 007 will be penned by Booker-nominated writer William Boyd. The new James Bond book will be set in the 1960s, and is scheduled for release in 2013.
12.04.2012 18:13 1 comment Different story to tell: Rowling unveils adult book name The author of the best-selling Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling has unveiled the title of her new book for adults. It will be called "The Casual Vacancy."		11.04.2012 19:58 2 comments eBook-gate: US sues Apple, publishers for conspired price-fixing The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc. on Wednesday, as federal investigators claim that the country’s biggest name in the computer industry worked to fix prices of electronic books to drive away competition.
11.04.2012 18:32 4 comments Star casting for Hollywood Chekhov movie The Twilight Saga star Christian Camargo is due to direct his first movie, a modern adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull".		09.04.2012 15:14 3 comments Patti Smith Bangas on about Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov’s mystical novel The Master and Margarita has once more become the source of inspiration for a musical artist, as singer Patti Smith’s new album shows.
06.04.2012 17:46 74 comments Grass stained: Israel slams Nobel Prize-winner over 'anti-nuke' poem The Israeli government has slammed a poem by prominent German writer and Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass criticizing Israel’s stance on nuclear armament. The country labels a comparison Grass made of Israel to Iran “shameful”.		04.04.2012 21:23 42 comments 'Israel a threat to world peace' – Nobel laureate German Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass is in the international spotlight after labeling Israel a “threat to world peace" in his new poem. Germany and Israel have both responded by strongly criticizing the writer. Israel vs Iran Iran tension
31.03.2012 13:13 4 comments 'Cooking with Poo' not for the faint-hearted Don't judge a book by its cover, they say. But sometimes a title alone can give you enough food for thought. A Thai recipe book entitled "Cooking With Poo" has won the Diagram Prize for oddest title of the year.		30.03.2012 21:42 23 comments NDAA in court over indefinite detention of Americans After much debate on a new law signed by President Barack Obama, House Republicans are throwing around the idea of reviewing the National Defense Authorization Act after the law was challenged in court. Global terrorism 9/11 tragedy Defense Authorization Act

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