Dell Inc. has agreed to work with Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. under an alliance the rival software makers formed last year to make it easier for the Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together, the companies said Sunday.Under the...

A federal judge has ruled that The SCO Group Inc. doesn't own the software it claims was misappropriated by developers of the open-source Linux operating system.In a 102-page ruling, U.S. District Court Dale Kimball ruled that Novell Inc., not SCO, owns copyrights covering the Unix...

An Iranian government decision to forbid the second printing of a Persian translation of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has spurred interest in the book, booksellers said Saturday.The novel by the famed Latin American writer was translated into Persian and had an initial press run...

Maybe it's that he's hit retirement age, but Garrison Keillor wasn't afraid to admit that his latest novel was easy to write."For me, that was manageable," Keiller said of "Pontoon," his 248-page return to Lake Wobegon. "I'm telling my publisher I want to write a...

In the following excerpt from his full-length treatment of Goethe's fiction, Lehnert explores the inner tensions in Goethe's Novelle, which he maintains adds to the complexity and greatness of Goethe's message that literature can act as a stabilizing social force.

In the following essay, Barry offers what he calls an “ironic reading” of Goethe's Novelle to show that the text is too rich to suggest only one “secret meaning.”

In the following essay, Wells compares the literary structure of Goethe's Novelle to the metamorphosis of seed to flowering plant, which he argues Goethe intended to show “the necessary harmony and compatibility of natural law and poetic structure.”