The newest members of New Jersey's Hall of Fame include actors Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito, musicians Les Paul and Count Basie, and authors Philip Roth and Judy Blume. The Associated Press obtained the list of the 15 inductees in advance of Thursday ...

Franco-American author Jonathan Littell has won the Bad Sex In Fiction Award for a book that had previously scooped France's top literary award. "The Kindly Ones", a World War II saga originally published in French under the title "Les Bienveillantes", won the Prix Goncourt in 2006 but it was only translated into English this year. Judges at the London ...

Franco-American author Jonathan Littell has won the Bad Sex In Fiction Award for a book that had previously scooped France's top literary award. "The Kindly Ones", a World War II saga originally published in French under the title "Les Bienveillantes", won the Prix Goncourt in 2006 but it was only translated into English this year. Judges at the London ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Israeli writer Amos Oz is favorite to be picked for the 2009 Nobel literature prize next Thursday, but with the judging notoriously hard to predict, he is far from a safe bet. Oz, who deals with life in modern Israel in his novels, and reflects decades of commitment to the Israeli peace movement in his political writing, is ...