100+ Days of Quarantine features insights from 67 opinion leaders covering a wide array of topics. 

Author Malcolm Gladwell reveals his take on writing best-selling books.

Passersby ignore a beggar, homophobic insults crowd a wall, a woman burns a note penned to a "victim" – not the usual stuff of comics but all vignettes from a new graphic novel by homeless people that aims to kill the stigma surrounding street life.

Scottish author Douglas Stuart on Thursday was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for his acclaimed debut novel "Shuggie Bain", set in his home city of Glasgow.

Britain's Booker Prize, whose winner is set to be unveiled on Thursday, this year pits four debut novelists against a pair of established writers for one of the world's most prestigious literary awards.

Donations to a fundraising campaign to install a statue of writer Virginia Woolf in London have poured in this week following a furor over a nude tribute unveiled to another feminist trailblazer in the British capital.

One of France's best-known authors, Alexandre Jardin, vowed Sunday that writers would bail out rebel bookshop owners fined for opening in defiance of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown.

A new book about Bangkok familiarizes you with the complexities of the city, inside and out.  

Faced with closures because of coronavirus measures and fierce competition from retail giant Amazon, 250 independent UK bookshops have banded together on a new online platform.

Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's top award for literature, for her short story collection "How To Pronounce Knife".

In person, Indonesian literary writer Eka Kurniawan is soft-spoken, calm and modest. But in his writings, he is fierce and bold.

A leading French supermarket chain announced that it would share its online retailing network with shuttered bookstores and other local businesses, tapping into resentment over Amazon's predominance in the new COVID lockdown.

First, bookstores across France were ordered to close in a new lockdown seeking to curb an alarming rise in coronavirus cases. Days later, bibliophiles were dealt a further blow as the government banned supermarkets, too, from selling books in a bid to parry claims of unfair competition.

This year's inaugural edition of a fully digital SWF is themed "Intimacy", in response to physical distancing, mobility restrictions and other measures that have created separation during the pandemic. 

A group of gay and bisexual British lawmakers were among the first to sound the alarm about Adolf Hitler's fascist threat, but - dismissed as "glamour boys" and warmongers - their warnings initially fell on deaf ears, according to a new book.

“Fashion fades, style is eternal,” said the esteemed designer Yves Saint Laurent. Truer words have never been spoken, especially in an age when trends rise and fall by the millisecond as season after season of new silhouettes and IT bags come and go.

Lagi Probation (Still on Probation) by Samuel Ray delves into the recruitment process, starting from making CVs to negotiating work contracts.

Writers come together to tell their compelling tales of reflection on the pandemic.

Boldizsar Nagy hoped that the tales in the children's book "Wonderland Is For Everyone" would help youngsters to learn to accept minorities and fight social ostracism.

Muslim scholar Musdah Mulia is not slowing down in her fight for a more humanistic interpretation of Islam, citing her religious faith as the primary driving force in her activism.

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.