The Frankfurt book fair, the world's largest, is going ahead this week even after a spike in coronavirus infections turned the German city into a high-risk area. 

A rare 1623 book that brought together William Shakespeare's plays for the first time sold for a record $9.97 million at auction on Wednesday.

The American Booksellers Association has launched an advertising campaign against Amazon to alert the public to what it calls the growing danger that book stores are under from the online goliath during the coronavirus pandemic.

With thousands of islands and hundreds of languages and dialects, Indonesia’s rich culture is a fount of inspiration for national literature, which is an attractive prospect ripe for international attention.

Hungary's nationalist government condemned a book of modern fairy tales for children published by a lesbian group as "homosexual propaganda" and said it should be banned.

The idea for the "Yemen Reads" campaign is simple -- to establish mini-libraries across the city where people can borrow books for free,

A tragic love story that Simone de Beauvoir thought "too intimate" to publish during her lifetime will finally see the light of day Wednesday, 34 years after her death.

There’s nothing like delving deep into history to remind us of humankind’s resilience while also distracting us temporarily -- in a good way -- from our current troubling situation.

It was partly thanks to a bet with her sister that Agatha Christie wrote her first detective novel, and 100 years since it was published she is as popular as ever.

Journalist Sarah Frier promises her book "No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram" is a revealing, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram became a social media sensation as a member of Facebook's family of online services.

This year's Nobel Literature Prize field is wide open ahead of Thursday's announcement, with literary circles abuzz about whether the nod will go to yet another controversial pick or a crowd-pleaser.

The French writer Michel Houellebecq praises a controversial French polemicist convicted for inciting hatred in his latest book of essays, which will be published Wednesday.

An international gang of thieves whose haul included rare books by historic greats such as Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton and Dante Alighieri were jailed on Friday by a British court.

In an age of lockdowns and quarantines, traveling sounds like a relic from a distant past, a forbidden fruit hidden behind an impenetrable wall of red tape.

The Japanese author says he appreciates Southern writers such as William Faulkner, with their keen eye for detail and critical standpoint. He said that he learned much from them, including writing about people, and that they influenced him as much as F. Scott Fitzgerald, the acclaimed author of the "The Great Gatsby."

Public libraries have had to adapt their offering and imagine new ways to pursue their activity while most "non-essential" public places have remained closed worldwide because of the pandemic.

A statue of Harry Potter, flying a Nimbus 2000 broom over the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch, was unveiled on Wednesday in London's Leicester Square.

More than 200 British authors have signed a "message of love" for transgender people, days after 58 other writers condemned threats against J.K. Rowling over her views on trans rights.

The winners of Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa 2020 will be announced on Oct. 15. 

It was hidden away for centuries in the archives of a seminary in Spain, a rare edition of a Shakespeare play experts believe may be the earliest copy of his work to reach the country.

France has stripped pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff of all state aid.

Wallace-Wells remorselessly delineates the notorious impact of human-induced disasters in a worst-case scenario. He spells out the adverse effects of climate crisis in his book’s first line as “worse, much worse than you think”. 

Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s victory in the 2014 presidential election understandably excited many Indonesians. 

Romanian prosecutors said Friday they had recovered around 200 centuries-old stolen books which disappeared from storage in Britain in 2017, including works by Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton and Dante Alighieri.

Former US president Barack Obama on Thursday announced the publication in November of the first half of his memoirs, "A Promised Land" -- two weeks after the election pitting Donald Trump against Joe Biden.

J.K. Rowling said one of the characters in her new crime novel, a male killer who on one occasion disguises himself as a woman to abduct a victim, was loosely based on two real life murderers.

"The Beatles: Get Back" will be released next August as a companion to a film by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson documenting the creation of the 1970 "Let It Be" album, the publishers said on Wednesday.

Four debut novelists were on Tuesday shortlisted alongside Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga and Ethiopian-American Maaza Mengiste for the Booker Prize for best English-language fiction, to be awarded in November.

Best-selling "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has stoked anger in the transgender community by including a cross-dressing serial killer in her latest novel.

Choosing a more moderate approach, I sometimes question myself, am I not Muslim enough if I don’t follow this hijrah trend?