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In a novel, Aminatta Forna writes about the effects of Sierra Leone's civil war on the country's women. She was just 11 when her father was hanged for treason in Sierra Leone and her family fled. Her story is part of a series of conversations about war and literature.

If you're only going to read one book this year about getting stabbed in the eye and crushing tiny, helpless bunnies, then run right out and get Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son.

A new study in the journal Child Development shows that if you teach students that their intelligence isn't fixed — that it can grow and increase — they do better in school.

From the Antique Man's giant ball of string in Fells Point, to the crab cake lunch downtown, Laura Lippman loves Baltimore. Despite the city's crime and other problems, the crime novelist says its flaws are what make it an interesting place.

Why do Asian kids outperform American kids in math? How did Bill Gates become a billionaire computer entrepreneur? Malcolm Gladwell takes on these questions and more in his book Outliers. He argues that the "self-made man" is a myth.

It took over five years for Nathaniel Rich to finish his first novel — maybe because he was writing The Mayor's Tongue secretly, first as a college student, and then while writing film criticism during the day.

Everyone has been transfixed by images of Hurricane Ike: the flooding, the rain, the wind. It's not stupidity, insanity or even pride that keeps most people in their homes during a storm: It's hope.

In his new poetry collection, the acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee looks back on his extraordinary family history in meditations on suffering, prayer, death and love. Though his poetry is personal, Lee says it describes universal emotions and experiences.

Sebastian Horsley has lived a life of decadence for over twenty years. He recently penned a memoir about his experiences called Dandy in the Underworld. Now he answers the question: What does it mean to be a modern dandy?

Ian Fleming's estate has contracted with writer Sebastian Faulks to write another installment of James Bond's adventures. The latest 007 novel — Devil May Care — features a villain with a hairy, ape hand; a psychopathic killer named Chagrin and (of course) a Bond girl or two.