Apart from offering Braille books, the Shanxi Library in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, is trying its best to satisfy the needs of the visually impaired by reading books aloud and playing movies accompanied by real-time narration.

Educators and activists in Bali are working with locals to conserve lontar manuscripts and educate them on how best to treat them – by reading and sharing their knowledge.

A young writer’s new book explores how the spice trade shaped Indonesia’s social and political structure.

Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf has won Chile's highest literature award for helping to bring the southern indigenous people's oral tradition to a wider public, the country's culture minister announced Tuesday.

The French translation of Agatha Christie's hit novel "And Then There Were None" will change its title to remove a racially-charged word already dropped from the British edition decades ago, its editor said Wednesday.

Australian journalist Deborah Cassrels gets the diversity that characterizes Indonesia by reporting from Bali rather than Jakarta. In Gods and Demons, she shares the story of her professional as well as personal odyssey in getting a better understanding of Indonesia.

At a time when good news is hard to come by, a breath of fresh air comes from Indonesian author Laksmi Pamuntjak. Her novel Fall Baby won Best Literary Work at the 2020 Singapore Book Awards.

Vikings were known for brutality and chauvinism as they pillaged their way across Europe, but a new book has claimed that some of the Nordic warriors might have secretly been transgender men.

Fall Baby is Laksmi’s first English language novel.

A collection of antiquarian cookery books will be offered as part of Bonhams' Fine Books and Manuscripts sale, which will take place on Aug. 19 in London. 

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's "love story" memoirs has topped the country's bestsellers list for a third straight week, according to the rankings Friday.

The Venezuelan literature prize Romulo Gallegos was once one of the most prestigious in Latin America and the Spanish-language world.

Kim Jong Un said his relationship with Donald Trump was like a "fantasy film", according to the publishers of a new book on the US president set to unveil 25 private letters exchanged between the two leaders.

A book consisting of 80 poems written by the late celebrated poet Sapardi Djoko Damono for his wife Sonya Sondakh was officially launched by publisher Gramedia Pustaka Utama (GPU) on Monday. 

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.