In the pre-smartphone era, before the existence of voice commands and virtual assistants, finding information meant hitting the books. For many Indonesians, those books were likely the Buku Pintar (Smart Book) series by the one and only Iwan Gayo.

The Canadian novelist has announced that she will release her new collection of poetry, “Dearly”, on November 10.

Available on its official store on Tokopedia, Big Bad Wolf's online sale will be held from Aug. 7 to 17. 

The American horror master has announced that his latest crime novel, Later, will arrive in bookstores across the world in March 2021.

Goethe-Institut Indonesien hosted a webinar on the curation of historical content in digital media that highlighted the importance of providing public access to cultural data.

A bestselling book that exposed the acclaimed French writer Gabriel Matzneff as a pedophile is to be adapted for the big screen, its producers said Monday.

Eight debut novelists came up against veterans Hilary Mantel and Tsitsi Dangarembga when Britain unveiled a US-dominated longlist of finalists Tuesday for its revered Booker Prize.

French photographer Marius Moragues explores and chronicles Indonesia through his lens.

Growing up in Australia, Lee learned about her Indonesian heritage through her grandmother Margaret Thali, who came from Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and online marketplaces, bookstores still hold a special place in the hearts of bookworms. 

Kwan’s new book, Sex and Vanity, released last month, introduces readers to a new set of wildly wealthy characters.

Harry Potter fans started to distance themselves from the English author JK Rowling back in June, after she posted a series of controversial tweets affirming that women can only be identified by their biological sex.

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.