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On Aug. 31, the great writer Wendell Berry died “suddenly and peacefully” at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he had lived with his beloved wife, Tanya Berry,...
Marcelo Nogueira is not well versed in the classics but the 27-year-old Brazilian book influencer was seduced by Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'White Nights,' a 19th-century tale of love and loneliness...
Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian who in poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and misjudgments...
With forecasters of doom debating the end of reading, of publishing and of literacy in general, what should we make of William T. Vollmann’s forthcoming novel, 'A Table for...
Quick, guess what Amanda Knox’s Wikifeet rating is. It’s OK to laugh. The whole concept is ridiculous (and the answer is 4.42/5). Which is why it’s the opening idea...
Acclaimed author Patricia Lockwood is this year's winner of the Gabe Hudson Prize, a $10,000 honor named for the late author, educator and editor and given for fiction that...
Eiko Kadono, the author behind Japan’s most famous - and almost certainly most beloved - literary witch, has a little trouble going up the stairs these days. At 91,...
Emirati poet and writer Shamma Al Bastaki took part in the Taobuk Festival in Taormina, Sicily, presenting her distinctive multilingual, cross-genre poetry to international audiences and contributing to a...
Croatian prominent feminist writer and journalist Slavenka Drakulic, one of the country's most widely translated authors, has died aged 76, her close friend confirmed to AFP on Sunday. Drakulic,...
Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, witnessed the launch and signing of the Hindi edition of Prof. Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi’s book “His Highness...