Deborah Feldman was 23 when she fled her ultra-Orthodox home in New York with her son, sparking outrage in the closed Jewish community, her dramatic story inspiring the Netflix hit "Unorthodox".

Fairy tales are a staple of childhood naptimes, but few know of their sometimes dark origins, as artist and author Lala Bohang can attest.

Born on March 20, 1940, in Surakarta, Central Java, Sapardi is among the most revered figures in the history of Indonesian literature.

A book by a Jewish comedian over Sweden's collaboration with the Nazis during World War II is at the center of a legal tussle in which Swedish prosecutors are calling for it to be destroyed, but which the author sees as nothing short of an attack against democracy.

Indonesian author Laksmi Pamuntjak shares her reading list for prolonged self-quarantine.

British author William Boyd believes he has discovered the London home of James Bond, after researching the character's creator Ian Fleming and his famous books for clues.  

The high-profile Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali has been postponed until further notice.

A new book on Donald Trump written by his niece sold nearly a million copies on the first day it went on sale in the United States.

The much-anticipated 'prequel' to F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" will be published on January 5, 2021, just a few days after the classic novel enters the public domain in the United States.

The latest novel from “Crazy Rich Asians” author Kevin Kwan has been picked up for feature film presentation, with “Sex and Vanity” going to Sony Pictures just over a week after hitting store shelves.

The English novelist will revisit his bestselling "His Dark Materials" trilogy with a new family-friendly novella, which will arrive in bookstores on October 15 via Penguin Random House.

A New York state judge lifted a stay on Monday that had temporarily blocked Donald Trump's niece from publishing a book offering an unflattering look at the US president and his family.

Based around Arthur's personal book collection, the library provides a remarkable opportunity to bring literature from the global black community to a country considered a cradle of African civilization, and which was once a hub of the transatlantic slave trade.

Many Indonesian maids often are locked inside working extra-long hours without even being fed. Some of them experience sexual abuse. Those portrayals of Indonesian domestic workers along with Asian domestic workers are neatly narrated in Karien van Ditzhuijzen’s A Yellow House.

The Hong Kong Book Fair has been postponed due to a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus cases in the global financial hub, the organizer said on Monday, just two days before the exhibition was due to open.

A new initiative is turning Indonesian literature into audio plays.

As the audiobook market has been booming these past few years, a growing number of actors are lending their distinctive voices to the audio adaptations of our favorite books.

Reading some environmental literature – sometimes called “eco-literature” – can also give us the opportunity to think about the world around us in different ways.

The English author and satirist passed away in 2015, notably leaving his mark on fantasy literature with the 41 volumes of his bestselling "Discworld" series.

French pornographic novelist Georges Pailler, who wrote racy titles under the pen name of Esparbec and insisted pornographic writing was an art form, has died aged 87, his publisher said Tuesday.

Donald Trump's niece will release her unflattering book on the US president on July 14, her publisher announced Monday, after a judge lifted a temporary ban on publication.

The pandemic has made all but the most essential travel impossible for many aspiring travelers, but it is not author Agustinus Wibowo’s first time at the rodeo.

The event will provide free delivery services and vouchers, as well as feature online talk shows with authors. 

Author Leila S. Chudori finds herself deeply grateful to have been named the Indonesian winner of this year’s Southeast Asian Writers award.

North Korea’s literary news outlet praised J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series for the pioneering spirit that it models for children.

The online bazaar Big Bad Wolf (BBW) is back until June 30 on its official store on Tokopedia.

Jakarta’s bookworms are finding more time to read during quarantine, as reflected in rising online book sales by popular publishers.

After 44 years of entertaining families in Indonesia, Album Donal Bebek, a local version of Disney’s Donald Duck comics, will cease its publication near the end of this month, in a move that has been met with sorrow by its loyal readers.

The co-founder of Metallica will open the doors of his garage in "Reclaimed Rust: The Four-Wheeled Creations Of James Hetfield," which will hit bookstores on July 28.

Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafon, whose book "The Shadow of the Wind" sold more than 15 million copies, has died of cancer aged 55 in Los Angeles, his publishing house said on Friday.