Booker T. Jones was flummoxed by the digital revolution. So he went to school.

“Ragtime” novelist E.L. Doctorow and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul were among the 14 finalists announced Wednesday for the Man Booker International Prize, given every two years for lifetime achievement by a fiction writer who writes in English or whose work

The Memphis soul sound of the 1960s and ’70s will get its due when Booker T. and the MGs and the Memphis Horns are inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame.

Aravind Adiga has won the prestigious Man Booker prize for his first novel.

Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize’s best-known winner. Now he is officially the best.Rushdie’s 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children” was named Thursday as the greatest-ever winner of Britain’s most prestigious literary award. The book received...

Booker T. and the MGs, the Memphis Horns and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section will become the newest members of the Musicians Hall of Fame.Musician and producer Al Kooper, producer Billy Sherrill and Buddy Holly’s band the Crickets also will be inducted..

Yann Martel and Salman Rushdie are the front-runners in a contest to choose the best-ever winner of literature’s prestigious Booker Prize.The Best of the Booker award is being handed out to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the fiction prize, open to...

Irish writer Anne Enright won the Man Booker fiction prize Tuesday for “The Gathering,” an uncompromising portrait of a troubled family.She is the second Irish writer to win the prize in the past three years, after John Banville’s “The Sea” in...