American literature

The U.S. has made the "only known surviving slave narrative written in Arabic" in the country available on the internet.

In "The Colossus of Maroussi," Henry Miller's book about Greece, he described Lawrence Durrell as "English despite himself, [and] in a quandary." Like Durrell, I have lived most of my life outside England and I too am in a quandary: I am pro-European in many respects, yet, having been born and educated in London I retain a strong sense of what it means to be English. Not British - English.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides (l) talks to Greek writer Kallia Papadaki during an event at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center late Thursday. Referring to his most famous work during a press conference at Athens City Hall earlier, the Greek-American had said, "I would not have written 'Middlesex' today." [Intime News]

Paul Auster wrote his first poem on a sunny spring day in 1956, when he was 9 years old. Happy to see the back of winter, he came up with a few verses while walking through a small park in his native South Orange, New Jersey. It was the worst poem ever written, the American writer says today, but it wasn't the words on the paper that mattered.

U.S. celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, who killed himself in a French hotel room earlier this month, had no narcotics in his body when he died, a local prosecutor said on June 22.

Prolific novelist Philip Roth, a dominant force in American literature throughout the latter half of the 20th century, has died at the age of 85.

Turkish Airlines has cemented its global brand power by collaborating with Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is widely known for his television program The Dr. Oz Show, which has won several Daytime Emmy Awards.

The crisis has triggered all sorts of divisions and reactions in the Greek people. We had fair warning that the resumption of name talks with Skopje would not be easy and could serve as a vent for a society that feels humiliated and hurt - and this precisely what is happening right now.

Orange Grove, the international start-up incubator launched by the Dutch Embassy in Athens, will be holding "The Squeeze #11" on Thursday, November 23, offering eight start-up companies the opportunity to win cash prizes of 15,000 and 10,000 euros.

With more than 50 years' worth of essays, novels, screenplays and criticism, Joan Didion has been the premier chronicler of the ebb and flow of America's cultural and political tides with observations on upheavals, downturns, life changes and states of mind in epoch-making books, including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," "Play It as It Lays" and "The White Album." She wrote about her reckoning w