Yes, that’s not a typo. Alaska’s most famous airhead Sarah Palin will have some competition when her memoir Going Rogue: An American Life is aborted into bookstores November 17th.
The Nation’s editors Richard Kim and Betsy Reed have rounded up an army of writers who have contributed essays on the mavericky …

Twitter has become a phenomenal  way for people to stay in touch.
Famous personalities, from d-list losers all the way up to the president himself take advantage of this medium to gab, jaw and shoot the shit about anything and everything…in 140 characters or less of course.
Inevitably, Twitter has also become …

Savethewords.org is a unique site which aims to boost the exposure of some uncommon words…
Featuring such jewels as panchymagogue: “medicine purging body fluids from the body” and tetanothurm: “a cosmetic for removing wrinkles”, the site may seem geeky at first, but is pulling for a worthy cause.
Languages have been going …

Have nothing to do this weekend and feel like reading the longest novel of the 20th century? Then step right up to Vikram Seth’s mammoth A Suitable Boy, a book which is good for what it is, but not good enough for what it should be….
The main thing is the …

Check your religious baggage at the door…
The popularity of Phillip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials has increased lately because of the release of a movie based on Book I, and as a result of the explosion in mainstream atheist literature (Dawkins, Hitches, Harris, etc.)
The plot of Book III: The Amber …