Teachers requested more than 400,000 copies of the novelist Ayn Rand’s books through the Ayn Rand Institute’s Books to Teachers program in the 2011-12 school year, a 30 percent increase in requests ...

To answer your question: Yes, Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn” is about Ayn Rand, the bug-eyed author of “Atlas Shrugged” and “The Fountainhead.” The founder of Objectivism, which extols rationalism ...

Good news, Alan Greenspan, Rand Paul and all the other Ayn Rand fans still out there: Her "lost" novel is going to be published. New American Library announced Thursday it will publish the first Ayn ...

A parent in the wealthy Texas town of Highland Park has challenged a book about people living near the poverty line, and suggested books by Ayn Rand, Ben Carson and Karen Hesse as replacements, the ...

In Lexi Freiman’s “The Book of Ayn,” a canceled novelist drifts from New York parties to L.A. parties to a commune in Greece, spreading the gospel of Ayn Rand. By Alexandra Tanner Alexandra Tanner’s ...

Beginning in 2007, the sales of a novel more than 50 years old, Atlas Shrugged, began to soar. To those lucky enough to have read it, the reasons were plainly obvious. Ayn Rand predicted the modern ...

Reading works of fiction can grow your vocabulary and lead to higher levels of emotional intelligence. For Kevin O'Leary and Mark Cuban, co-stars on ABC's "Shark Tank," fiction has also inspired ...

In three weeks we will be voting in, what many consider, the most important election of our lifetime, the 2012 Presidential election. If you’re reading this article, chances are you’ve already made up ...

Say that the longest philosophical speeches were removed from Atlas Shrugged. Francisco D'Anconia would muse on money in a brief, plausibly conversational way. Hank Rearden would explain himself ...

Ayn Rand, pictured in 1962 New York City, becomes a talisman to a disaffected present-day writer in Lexi Freiman's satirical novel "The Book of Ayn." (Associated Press) Putting Rand in the title of ...