Philip Roth, the most decorated living American novelist, today won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, beating off competition from 12 other contenders, including India-born Canadian......
French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The 69-year-old author beat Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Haruki Murakami, Svetlana......
In 1979, Philip Roth, one of America's greatest living writers, wrote a novel called The Ghost Writer. It introduced readers to a character called Nathan Zuckerman, a 23-year-old writer in search......
George Plimpton, the author of Paper Lion and other sporting adventures and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died at 76.Plimpton died Thursday night at his......
'The response to savagery and mass injustice is never a persistent howl.''There will be, among the victims, those who choose to forget the scars, those who go on living, those who challenge the......
The bears are not headed into hibernation yet, three years after Nasdaq peaked above 5,000 in a dot-com pipedream that turned into a nightmare.The giddy days of early 2000 are just a memory for......
Munjya is the most wildly entertaining ghost I have encountered at the movies recently.But he has the added advantage of being a Maharashtrian ghost, of possessing rhythms of speech and behaviour......
'Surely a person like Happi deserves to be treated with dignity.''But does he deserve a two hour movie dedicated to his daftness, and to the failure of the rest of the world to come round to the......
A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem......