U.S. author Sendak gnashes teeth over monster tag
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U.S. author and illustrator Maurice   Sendak stomps his feet at being branded a monster writer --   even though his latest work, a pop-up book called "Mommy?,"   overflows with hordes of fearsome creatures.
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Diablo Cody has a tough-chick reputation Â the tattooed, punkish sex blogger wrote a book about her year as a stripper, and the name of her blog is too risque for family newspapers.
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Eliot Weinberger, a previous finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, set off a stir by saying that one of this year's nominees, Bruce Bawer, had engaged in âracism as criticism.â
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David Bollier's Brand Name Bullies seeks to expose the 'quest to own and control our culture.' But the book's real value is in its numerous case studies of copyright and trademark battles. By Amit Asaravala.
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A commercial photographer and train buffâs works seem at once folksy and uncanny, with phallic monsters of industrial dynamism racing through benign, Norman Rockwell-esque visions of semirural America.
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A billionaireÂs attempt to block an article in the Russian language edition of Forbes magazine has raised questions about intimidation of the press in Russia.
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Everything must go Malware authors have developed a talking Trojan capable of taunting its victims even as it goes about its work trashing their PCs.â¦
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Paul Notzold's interactive artwork lets viewers add their uncensored words to giant scenes from a classic horror flick. The results can be monstrously funny.
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Bird still frozen? Starving guests going mental? The Geeky Gourmet serves up tips for coping with Thanksgiving nightmares. An excerpt from Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner by Joe Kissell.
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Literary heavyweights, including Thomas Pynchon, have been expressing their indignation on behalf of Ian McEwan.
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The scoreboard at Yankee Stadium read Yankees 10, Red Sox 0. Suddenly, a shaggy-haired fellow in a Red Sox cap seven rows behind first base held up a cross made of plastic straws and screamed at the Bronx Bombers: "Back, you devils!" Alas, Stephen King's curse didn't work.
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An author who has written books on grizzlies has survived an attack by one of the bears in America's famed Yellowstone National Park, the National Park Service said on Thursday.
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An authorâs throwback view on the culture of casual sex among young women is under fire.
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New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has a new artistic obsession: pysanky, otherwise known as Ukrainian Easter eggs.
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CHICAGO - "Animal Grossology," the new exhibition at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, could easily have been a lot grosser.
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The author and two associates are accused of violating copyright laws.
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The translation of a new Japanese-language web comic serves up more tantalizing tidbits about J.J. Abrams' new monster movie.