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Thousands of environmental groups have sprung up in China, hoping to protect its land and wildlife from the ravages of economic development. Journalist Jonathan Watts writes about them in a new book, When a Billion Chinese Jump.

The title novella in Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle, says Scott Turow, "achieves the shocking brevity and power of the best poems." Turow, the author of Presumed Innocent and other novels, talks about why Olsen's story about an aged couple has become one of his favorite texts.

New legislation on the treatment of terrorism suspects is designed to limit hundreds of petitions from Guantanamo detainees that have flooded federal courts, according to John Yoo, who helped formulate the Bush administration's enemy-combatant policies.

The Oprah Book Club helped put Janet Fitch's debut novel on the top of the bestseller list. Now the author is back with her sophomore novel, a tale of 1980s Los Angeles that, much like her first novel, is full of rich characters and equally saturated in loss and despair.

Matteo Messina Denaro died on Monday in a hospital prison ward several months after being captured following decades on the run, Italian state radio said.

The sad-sack central character of Robert Ward's latest novel is the anti-hero of a darkly comic story of love and crime, who falls in love with a woman who knows a loser when she sees one. He sets out to win her affections with a heist gone bad...

The author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives says her research into fetal origins helped her see that pregnancy isn't just about waiting for birth — it's an opportunity to improve the health and well-being of the next generation.

In his book Failed Illusions, scholar Charles Gati offers a new assessment of the Hungarian anticommunist uprising of 1956, arguing that the failures were widespread, and the "gap between words and deeds was huge" in the U.S. response.

Philippine officials vowed Monday to remove a floating barrier placed by China's coast guard to prevent Filipino fishing boats from entering a disputed lagoon in the South China Sea.

Some grocery stores are using the same sensory marketing tricks to change people's buying habits that big food companies and restaurants have used for years. These new marketing tools can also promote public health.