Despite fears over COVID-19, which has sparked a series of event cancelations in Jakarta, BBW organizers said they were ready to implement safety and sanitation procedures during the book sale, including temperature checks for all staff and visitors prior to entering the venue

One of the world’s biggest publishing trade fairs, the London Book Fair, has been cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak in Europe, its organizers said on Wednesday.

"Apropos of Nothing" was first rejected by several publishing houses in the wake of the #MeToo movement, when allegations that Allen molested his then-7-year-old adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in the early 1990s resurfaced.

The goblet remains ablaze as Harry Potter fans continue to relive every scene from the novels and films.

Famed nonfiction writer Lawrence Wright is garnering heaps of attention for his upcoming novel, “The End of October.”

Penguin Random House SEA has released veteran journalist and author Leila S. Chudori's true-story-inspired novel, The Sea Speaks His Name.

Amazon has stopped sales of some books on its platform following protests that the titles, including some for children, were Nazi-era "propaganda".

The best-selling author, known for "The Da Vinci Code", will release his first volume for children in September.

Indonesian artist Karina Tungari, who is based in Hamburg, Germany, recently received a promotional prize from the city’s agency for culture and media in the newly established category for comics.

The Auschwitz museum called Friday on US e-commerce billionaire Jeff Bezos to remove Nazi era anti-Semitic children's books featured on his Amazon global digital sales platform.

A new book reveals how local people exercise their local wisdom to manage forests in a sustainable way.

Indonesian designer, video-maker and illustrator Jordan Marzuki celebrates his childhood in his book.  

The English edition of Gundala has landed in bookstores in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. 

The tenacity and bravery of Yogyakarta writer Hersri Setiawan and his mates who were jailed on Buru Island reveal much of human nature. Here the book becomes a page turner for those who wants to know the truth, not the manufactured version.

Such a Fun Age begins with the classic ‘caught being racist’ moment often trending in the media. 

Venerable sculptor and feminist icon Dolorosa Sinaga celebrated her illustrious career spanning more than four decades with the launch of her biography, Dolorosa Sinaga: Tubuh, Bentuk, Substansi (Dolorosa Sinaga: Body, Form, Matter).

Former Dutch colonies are the focus at Winternachten, one of the Netherlands' biggest literary festivals, in The Hague.

Gundala – Takdir is said to be a bestseller and its fourth edition is currently in circulation in the national market.

Best-selling American author Mary Higgins Clark, known to her fans as the "Queen of Suspense", has died aged 92, her publisher confirmed Friday.

Hailed by luminaries such as Stephen King and Oprah Winfrey, "American Dirt" was touted as the next "great American novel," bought for a seven-figure advance, backed by aggressive marketing and launched last week to great fanfare in both English and Spanish. 

French writer Gabriel Matzneff said in an interview Wednesday that he "regrets" his trips to Asia to have sex with children, claiming that at the time "no one ever said it was a crime".

Similar to previous years, the event is set to take place at the Indonesia Convention Exhibition (ICE) in BSD, South Tangerang, Banten.

Through translating and writing, Tiffany Tsao aims to put Indonesian literature, and her own novels, on the world stage.

These literary stars, from the Bard to the man behind "A Song Of Ice And Fire" saga, were all born in the year of the Rat.

France's oldest LGBT bookshop is being pushed out of Paris's trendy gay district due to skyrocketing rents fanned by gentrification, tourism and top brands which have opened outlets there.

Bourdain's first posthumous book, 'World Travel: An Irreverent Guide,' will be published on Oct. 13.

One of Indonesia’s most venerated figures in accounting, Utomo Josodirdjo, celebrated his 90th birthday with the launch of two memoirs commemorating his journey in creating the country’s largest accounting firm SGV Utomo.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is an ambitious book that deserves a greater audience outside business leaders and policymakers. 

Translated by Jennifer Lindsay, Buru Island: A Prison Memoir is the most recent and last book in the Herb Feith Translation series, a program than publishes high-quality non-fiction books not previously available in English, which enhance scholarship and teaching about Indonesia.

Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh lives one heck of a life.