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Anna and Joseph Wise, childhood sweethearts, were married for nearly six decades. Now 96, she has outlived him for 16 years and wonders how "you get through almost anything."

The Pakistani government has accused the pro-Taliban leader of involvement in the Dec. 27 assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, along with a series of attacks on security forces. What evidence does the government have linking him to the attacks? And how much influence does he have among the pro-Taliban forces?

It will be a few years before Chinese cars are selling in U.S. showrooms, but their presence at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit is creating quite a stir. Five Chinese auto-makers are represented, sending a clear signal that China is setting its sights on the lucrative American market.

Alan Cheuse makes a prediction for forthcoming novels from John Grisham and Stephen King. Grisham's The Appeal centers on a $41 million jury award to a Mississippi woman whose family died at the hands of a chemical company; King's Duma Key features an evil genie who goes after a man in the Florida Keys.

Although the genre has acquired a trashy reputation, pulp fiction is full of language worth relishing, says Otto Penzler editor of The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps. Magazines that sold for just a few cents in the '20s killed excessive prose and gave us the hard-boiled detective that continues to fill pop culture today.

Each year, at the American Library Association's mid-winter meeting, the winners of the most prestigious prizes for children's books are announced: the Caldecott Medal for picture book, and the Newbery Award.

In Creating a World Without Poverty Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus describes how entrepreneurs with an altruistic vision can use traditional businesses to tackle the world's most pressing problems.

Have you ever wondered who invented the dishwasher? Or who was the first person ever to go on a diet? Those answers and more are part of a new book from mental_floss magazine.

From free-flowing blogs to social networks and Wikipedia, creating legal regulations for behavior on the Web is a specialty evolving as rapidly as innovations on the Internet. A growing number of law schools are answering the call.

Tahmima Anam grew up mostly in the West, but tells the story of the Bangladesh war for independence in her first novel, A Golden Age. The inspiration? Her grandmother, who lived through those tumultuous times.