The FBI have confirmed that a first folio edition of a William Shakespeare book from 1623 that was stolen from a British university 10 years ago has been found in Washington.

Stephenie Meyer's latest dominates this week's new fiction. Without a doubt, the big news in fiction this week is Stephenie Meyer's anticipated young adult novel Breaking Dawn. As Meyer-mania has taken over the major bestsellers lists for months now,

T ruman Capote said of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, his classic novella of a New York glamour girl, that he was trying to prune his writing style, achieve a more subdued prose.

Chinese novelists were once encouraged to address politics and society through a Communist lens. Now young writers can be as entertaining as they want on the Web.

Today thousands of Jakartans tune in to local radio stations to have the simple pleasure of listening to their favorite Mandarin songs that was not the case a decade ago. During the Soeharto era, the public display of Chinese cultur ...