Chinese writer Su Tong has won Asia's top literary prize with a bleak novel about a disgraced Communist Party official's attempts to rebuild his life, trumping a clutch of Indian writers on the shortlist.

A series of four books presented Tuesday at the Vatican seeks to explain how Michelangelo and other artists translated the Bible into images to produce in the Sistine Chapel some of the world's most renowned frescoes.

Sarah Palin's book is highly anticipated in her home state — but she's no Harry Potter.

The story of a Chinese Communist Party official who moves to a community of boat people after his revolutionary lineage is refuted has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, organizers said.

The pilot who guided his disabled plane to a safe emergency landing in the Hudson River says that a new book that underscores the role of the jet's automation technology in the landing is inaccurate.

Sarah Palin may fashion herself as a go-it-alone maverick, but her book is producing a crowd.

Sarah Palin says she didn't know her daughter Bristol was sexually active before she learned the teenager was pregnant.

In his second novel, Asia scholar Ian Buruma tells the epic tale of Japan's transformation from a military state with imperial ambitions to a peaceful economic superpower through the vivid fictionalized life story of real-life actress, journalist and politician Yoshiko Yamaguchi in The China Lover.

With an attention-grabbing title and a strong selection of examples from the business world, customer service consultant Jeanne Bliss shows how companies create steadfastly loyal customers.

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967.