During the early 1970s -- the emergent years of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the "Native American Renaissance" -- Leslie Marmon Silko was perhaps the movement's preeminent writer of short fiction. She had also published a collection of highly regarded...

Leslie Marmon Silko is one of the most important writers to emerge from the Native American Renaissance, a period of intense literary productivity by Native Americans that began with the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel...

Despite that her most successful work is an early one, Leslie Marmon Silko remains a central voice in Native American literature. Her first novel, Ceremony (1977), is taught in colleges and universities around the world. Scholarship on her body of work c...

Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk. New York: Doubleday. 256 pages. $24.95. "The only pattern in crib death is it tends to increase as the weather cools in the fall. This is the fact my editor wants to lead with in our first installment. Something...

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Islamic authorities in a Malaysian state believe they have found the secret of family love, women singing lullabies to their children and husbands.The government of Kelantan, the only Malaysian state to be ruled by an Islamic fundamentalist party, will organize this month a lullaby contest...

“I’ll never forget, I went to the first cocktail party—I can’t claim it was the first, but it was the first I heard about—but they were only charging 50 bucks,” said Randall Bourscheidt, the genius and dishy president of the Alliance for the Arts. “It...