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  • Books a must-have even in sluggish economy: poll

    2010-02-01 09:12

    During tough economic times when U.S. consumers are trying to cut back the indulgence they can't seem to live without is books.

  • Faint praise for Great Plains

    2010-01-29 09:05

    Farmers in Shaanxi who offer goats and pigs to the Mountain God at Spring Festival, writers in the northwestern province offer themselves to the Muse of Literature, says Gao Jianqun.

  • Walking a tightrope

    2010-01-29 09:03

    Irish-American writer Colum McCann whose works are being translated into Chinese, shares his views on how the world is getting bigger, and also smaller.

  • Reclusive author J.D. Salinger dies at 91

    2010-01-29 07:57

    U.S. author J.D. Salinger, who wrote the American post-war literary classic "The Catcher in the Rye," has died of natural causes aged 91.

  • English fiction in India? It's the same old story

    2010-01-26 07:43

    Amid the color and celebration of the Jaipur Literary Festival, heralded as Asia's largest, one question has furrowed many brows and sparked anxious debate: is fiction writing in English in India past its prime?

  • Chorus of approval for Han Han

    2010-01-22 08:51

    China's best-selling writer Han Han announced the launch of Chorus of the Soloists this month and he'll be the magazine's editor-in-chief.

  • Call of the wild

    2010-01-22 08:49

    Toronto-based writer realizes a long cherished dream to write about the Chinese immigrants who went to mine gold in the Rocky Mountains.

  • Chapter ends as bookstore closes after losing millions

    2010-01-20 10:38

    Disanji, the largest private bookstore in Beijing, closed at 6 pm yesterday for the last time after losing almost 50 million yuan in its three years in business.

  • Confused about wine? Books may help

    2010-01-20 08:47

    Drinking wine is more fun than reading about it unless you have a book in one hand and a glass in the other.

  • Life on the other side

    2010-01-19 09:05

    Bestselling author Liao Hsin-chung says that the changes in Taiwan in the past 30 years have been no less dramatic than in the mainland.

  • Exposed: the real meaning behind the clichés people use

    2010-01-19 08:56

    They're every editor's nightmare, those banal, trite, overused expressions for absolutely everything that often say absolutely nothing.

  • On 'Give up the fight to learn'

    2010-01-18 09:56

    Three reasons to totally agree with Holden

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