Books based on `Glee` set for release

Last Updated: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 12:00

The class of `Glee` will be hitting the books.

Aarya to use nick name for comic series

Last Updated: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 08:40

Actor Aarya Babbar is writing a mythological comic book series and has decided to use his nickname as his pen name for his pet project ‘Pushpak Vimaan’.

Dig into history, urban war, illicit love

Last Updated: Friday, June 11, 2010, 13:00

Here are five new books to add to your reading list this week:

David scoops Germany literary peace prize

Last Updated: Friday, June 11, 2010, 08:26

One of Israel`s best-known authors and outspoken peace activists, David Grossman, is to receive this year`s prestigious German Book Trade Peace Prize, the association said Thursday.

Peruvian poet wins Chile`s Neruda Prize

Last Updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 14:21

Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros has been named the winner of the 2010 Pablo Neruda Ibero-American Poetry Prize. The Chilean government confers the prize in honour of the country`s late Nobel laureate.

Canadian author to be first woman to lead Friday prayers in UK

Last Updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 13:13

A Canadian author will become the first Muslim-born woman to lead a mixed-gender British congregation through Friday prayers tomorrow.

Everything`s right about `Being Wrong`

Last Updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 08:24

The journalist and former editor of Grist magazine explores all things inaccurate in `Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.`And what she finds is this: To err is human ... and it`s not necessarily a bad thing — especially when you take ownership.