British writer Zadie Smith has published only two novels: White Teeth, winner of two major literary awards and with over one million copies in print, and The Autograph Man. Smith burst into the international fiction scene with the publication of her...

Nigeria's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, becoming the first African to take the award in its 12-year history, organizers said Wednesday.Adichie, 29, also the youngest author to have won the prize, was awarded for novel "Half of a Yellow...

Hill and Bill cry and pry their way into a squeaker victory in New Hampshire. (Who cares if the blogosphere is crackling with questions about those curious voting machine vs. paper ballot discrepancies!) Well, at least Hillary’s obscene dramatization of human emotion has had a...

James Wood has had a standing offer to join the staff of The New Yorker for about as long as people have been calling him the best literary critic in the world. Until recently, Mr. Wood did not want to go. He had contributed to...

Roman Kaplan, the majestic owner of the Russian Samovar, used to have a blog, but he stopped updating it in October because the people who were doing the typing and translating for him weren’t doing a good job. (The most recent entry is full of...