Data from Amnesty International reveal that there are more than 300 death row inmates in Indonesia, the ninth-highest number in the world.

A new book is trying to get inside President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s head to determine what type of leader he is.

The UAE city of Sharjah took up the mantle as UNESCO's World Book Capital for 2019 late Tuesday, launching a series of cultural programs aimed at both locals and expatriates.

Here are eight Avengers/X-Men stories we think are perfect for the MCU.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election is topping the Amazon best-seller charts.

Prince's unfinished memoir, "The Beautiful Ones," will be released in October, its publisher announced Monday -- three years after the singer's sudden death in April 2016.

Author Reda Gaudiamo hopes those who are passionate about writing do not give up on their dreams easily.

President Emmanuel Macron has awarded the country's top honor to the controversial top-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq, a scourge of the establishment for his bitter denunciations of modern France.

The Jakarta Post spoke to Laila Lalami on The Other Americans, American society and the Iraq War.

On the eve of Kartini Day, celebrated every April 21, an education portal has released a digital comic available for the general public to learn about the figure they might only know from standard textbooks. 

Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" shot to the top of the Amazon bestseller list Tuesday as firefighters damped down the embers of the blaze which ravaged the ancient cathedral.

Game Of Thrones has ruined Game Of Thrones for me. More specifically, the Game Of Thrones TV series has spoilt George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire for me.

There is no shortage of topics out there for any aspiring writer to explore. But what if the one you’d like to write about is so niche no mainstream publisher would pick it up?

Here’s a chance for foreigners bedazzled by this archipelago of astonishments to better their knowledge of its history and cultures – not through texts hammered by pedestrian academics clumsy at storytelling, but through fiction.

The end of Soeharto's rule "triggered political changes" in Indonesia, according to Elaine Pearson, the Australian director of Human Rights Watch.

Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, who scooped last year's Booker International Prize for fiction, was named Tuesday among five female nominees for this year's prestigious literary award.

Lisa Harding jokes that she is going to choose a "nice cheery subject" for her next book before admitting that it is actually about children coping with alcoholic parents.

The epic tale of Japan's first foreign-born samurai is soon to hit bookshelves, giving readers a comprehensive picture of a man who witnessed great moments of history but whose story has largely been overlooked in official accounts.

Digital anthropologist, ethnographer and author Crystal Abidin is well-known for her research on influencers and internet celebrities, but she has no plan to become one.

Three dispensers which print free short stories will be installed around London's Canary Wharf this week.

Decades after Kurt Cobain's guttural rasp seduced Generation X from its collective bedroom and into the post-punk clubs of 1990s Seattle, the late Nirvana frontman remains a talisman for the young and disaffected the world over.

A Scottish "Holocaust heroine" and quiet champion of educating girls helped save many Jews in Hungary before dying herself in a Nazi concentration camp.

The Indonesian team is displaying more than 150 book titles in various categories such as folktales, fantasy, religion, language and character building.

A newly launched book, penned by First Marshal Andi Wijaya and his team, reveals the history of Abdulrachman Saleh Air Force Base in Malang, East Java, and its connection with an old Javanese kingdom.

Catholic priests in the northern Polish city of Koszalin burned books they say are sacrilegious this weekend, including tomes from British author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels.

To encourage the children to read, no one is allowed to use their phone at the place.

Indian writer and dancer Tishani Doshi believes literature and arts can help people transform challenging life situations into life-affirming aesthetic expression.

From famous singer to acclaimed writer: Dewi “Dee” Lestari talks about her experience of crossing boundaries and genres.

The literary agent is the missing link in the Indonesian publishing industry, where writers deal directly with publishers instead of having someone else doing the job for them.

Singing and laughter briefly drown out the roar of cars under a Jakarta flyover, where an unlikely library for kids is thriving despite choking fumes -- and opposition from menacing gangsters.