When literature is taken from its native country and translated into another language, there are many parts that are expressed beautifully, while other things are just lost in translation.
With Shakespeare's 447th birthday fast approaching, Inside Beat casts its attention on contemporaries that have transformed the Bard's work into modern masterpieces.
They fly, shoot lasers and pick up ridiculously heavy objects, all while amazing us and enchanting our fancy. They are the comic-book super heroes that we grew up with and idealized as kids.
Juggling classwork and cookware isn't easy, but Inside Beat has got you covered with some easy-peasy cookbook recommendations and nothing-to-it Thanksgiving recipes!
After a writer comes out with one stunningly successful book, it is very tempting to hope for more of the same in her future work, especially if the book being discussed is Water for Elephants.
A beautiful blonde girl with guarded dark blue eyes and an unsmiling pair of glossy pink lips fills the cover of Cum Laude, written by Gossip Girl creator CecilyvonZiegesar.
For three days, NYC's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center became the center point of a collision between all things horror, sci-fi, fantasy and comic book at the 2010 New York Comic Con.
A title like A Visit from the Goon Squad and a picture of a broken guitar on the front cover can lead you to many assumptions about the content of a book.
When Oprah tells us about her latest pick for Oprah's Book Club, we feel an undeniable urge to get a hold of the book and see what all the fuss is about.
It is clear society has an increasing love for online networking and paperless communication. In place of face-to-face conversations, we use text messaging to make or break relationships.
Whether you'll be relaxing in the sun at the beach, traveling to a vacation getaway, or just bumming around the house, chances are that you'll need a good book or two to help you pass the time. Here's a look at this summer's best upcoming books:
Contrary to what popular opinion would have you believe, not all vampire novels are created equal. Aside from one of its characters coincidentally being named Bella, Bite Me: A Love Story, written by best-selling author Christopher Moore, shares little else in common with the vampire literature currently dominating America's bookshelves.
With the relentless snow and cold weather this winter, you may find yourself indoors more than usual in March. Here is a mix of light and serious reads to help you get through spring fever.
Good Without God. Sounds like a simple concept, right? Yet Greg Epstein's book on this very subject goes on for about 200 pages. At that length, what makes it different from those religious pamphlets that try to "spend the message?" What separates it from being a religious work itself, advocating yet another form of belief?
By December, publishers have usually released their bestsellers in anticipation of the holiday shopping season. Here are some standouts coming out this month that should not be missed.
The beat of percussion and the voice of poetry are artistic in their own right, but former Rutgers student and professor Miguel Algarín shows that together, they can form a unique and harmonious pair.
Stones is a poignant tale about how death may not be the end after all — a message, which reverberates with a special wisdom even after closing its covers.
Maureen Sherbondy's short story collection, The Slow Vanishing, is aptly named. Her tales are like a tasting menu, giving the reader only a moment to savor a great bite before moving onto the next course.
November is destined to be an exciting month for readers, with the releases of the stories of a former politician (no, not Sarah Palin), two famous men writing from the grave, and an award-winning short story writer.
Fans of Walls's Glass Castle, a New York Times best-seller, will relish every word of Half Broke Horses. From beginning to end, her charismatic story is a testament to life itself and a memoir of a lost time in American history.
Halloween brings out our inner urge to sit through terrifying movies and experience those "jump-out-of-your-seat" thrills. But no film can beat the mind's ability to picture the worst, and a good horror writer knows just how to make thoughts of their disturbing tales linger in the imagination.
As if collaborating with Spike Jonze to create one adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are wasn't enough, Dave Eggers recently released yet another version of the beloved children's story entitled The Wild Things.
In Spike Jonze's new movie Where The Wild Things Are, a word is worth a thousand pictures. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain how Jonze was able to turn Maurice Sendak's original 10-sentence story into an hour-and-a-half-long movie.
Every year in October, two of the most prestigious literary honors, the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Man Booker Prize, are awarded to some of the world's most talented authors. This year's picks are Herta Müller and Hilary Mantel.
Students, teachers, fans and writers gathered in the crowded Trayes Hall in the Douglass Campus Center eager to hear the words of the poet herself. She presented the crowd with a handful of poems, starting with the widely-anthologized Calibrations, a piece about soldiers with lost limbs that is set in a military hospital in Iraq, and is full of anti-war sentiment.
Although there will be many new releases by perennial favorites like Anne Rice, Terry Prachett, and David Baldacci, October looks like it will be a slow month for books. However, there are some standouts to look forward to by the end of the month.
Compared to Palahniuk's previous books Fight Club, Choke and Invisible Monsters, Pygmy, with its difficult prose and slow-to-develop plot, is unlikely to gain a cult following. But Palahniuk has never been afraid to express unpopular ideas, and Pygmy is no different.
A brave protagonist, a beautiful heroine with a mysterious background, and a prophecy that makes them the target of crazed murderers and the key to an ancient secret. All these classic ingredients can be found in Terry Goodkind's latest book, The Law of Nines, and make for a compelling read.
Imagine someday walking through a library, seeing people reading books, magazines, newspapers and even giant textbooks all through a small, rectangular sheet of plastic. Amazon's e-text reader, the Kindle, has the potential to do just that.
Mitch Albom guides us through another journey of self-discovery in his September 29 release, Have a Little Faith. In his first unforgettable nonfiction narrative, Tuesdays with Morrie, Albom tells the story of Morrie, a former sociology teacher who uses his struggles with the incurable ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) as his final lessons about life and death.
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