Stephen Hawking’s pop-science book about the origins of our universe got attention for a passage about God.

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Two recent books resurrect the debate over universities and the supposedly pampered people who teach there.

Isabel Wilkerson’s masterly account of the Great Migration tells the story of the six million African-Americans who moved away from the South between 1915 and 1970.

A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.

Mystery novels by Sara Paretsky, Charles Todd, Jeff Lindsay and Susan Hill.

Six authors, including Tom McCarthy for his novel "C" and Emma Donoghue for "Room," were named on Tuesday to the shortlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.