'Stranger Than Fiction' is too by the book
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The film's literary plot, about a man who hears an author narrating his life, never quite moves beyond generic.
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Recent research is providing new insight into experiences more often left to paranormal explanations.
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Some books find paradise only on film. Written by talk-show host and Tuesdays With Morrie author Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is one of those gift-shop inspirational parables that usually are more popular with book buyers than book critics.
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Daniel Mason: The story behind "The Piano Tuner," Daniel Mason's debut novel, has become, in itself, the stuff of fiction.
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LOS ANGELES  - Queen Latifah and Emma  Thompson are joining Will Ferrell in "Stranger Than Fiction,"  director Marc Forster's follow-up to "Finding Neverland."
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With all due respect to  "I'm Not There," Todd Haynes' imaginative and often dazzling  meditation on the pop-culture mythology of Bob Dylan, there  ain't nothing like the real thing.
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Extraterrestrial life may well be so weird we would not immediately recognize it, and scientists looking for alien life should be seeking the unfamiliar as well as the familiar, experts advised on Friday.
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A computer program known as Brutus.1 is generating brief outbursts of fiction that are probably superior to what many humans could turn out.
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Now and then a story comes along that is so outrageous a ' for good or for bad a ' that it captures the popular imagination and enters into the realm of contemporary folklore.
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James Frey is writing a new book, and this time he's calling it fiction.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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It's not only a tongue-twister, but an interesting twist in the base metals story.
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If there is a truth in advertising award for books, specifically book titles, S. L. Price's "Far Afield" is on my short list for 2007 honors. It is literally all over the place, and that's meant as an unqualified compliment.
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Denis Johnsonâs wildly ambitious new novel reads like a whacked-out, hallucinogenic variation on a Vietnam classic, and yet he manages to turn it into something original and potent.
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1. "Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
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The unnamed narrator in Robert Harrisâs amusingly acerbic new novel is a ghostwriter working on the memoir of a former British prime minister who sounds like Tony Blair.
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Since the first boom of the early 1970s, there has been no dearth of running books, from the how-tos of Jim Fixx to the whys of the good doctor, George Sheehan. But noteworthy additions to the genre -- even as technically imperfect as John L. Parker Jr.'s 1978 cult classic "Once a Runner" -- have...