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.

Apart from a few old survivors of last century’s left-wing purges and a short bookshelf of historians, Ba Ren’s name would puzzle Indonesians. Yet his complex story as disclosed in Taomo Zhou’s book Migration in the Time of Revolution is so extraordinary.

French publisher Gallimard said on Tuesday it was halting the sale of books by a writer accused of raping children.

Just like Neruda's best-known poems, at its core, A Long Petal of the Sea tells a romance between men and states.

A prominent French author who has never made any secret of his preference for sex with adolescent girls and boys is at the center of a firestorm as a former partner publishes a book describing the lasting trauma of underage intercourse over three decades ago.

Barack Obama took to social media on the weekend to share his favorite reads of 2019 -- a scholarly list that shows the former US president remains very much a bookworm.

Gabriel Possenti Sindhunata, a Catholic priest, released his newest poetry book, inspired by water, in his hometown of Batu, East Java.

A Japanese artist whose manga comics about a Uighur woman went viral wants to use the simple power of her work to raise awareness of the "daily suffering" endured by the Chinese mostly Muslim minority.

Aspiring Indonesian webcomic artists take pleasure in making their followers smile with the hilarious, awkward and sometimes dry jokes they post on Instagram.

The story, with a spotlight on young Anastasia Steele’s BDSM relationship with her wealthy and mysterious older boyfriend Christian Grey, was well-received around the world. 

Every decade or so, a nonfiction book arrives that is so good that it causes a seismic shift in the way people think about everyday occurrences.

Award-winning author Iksaka Banu tells of his adventures in historical fiction.

Many contemporary Indonesian authors are fascinated by and even draw on Latin American literature. And the big question is, can they influence their Latin American counterparts in the same way?

The three women are Maggie, Lina and Sloane. Each of them is grappling with their own sexuality, both in the past and the present.

Elizabeth I, one of England's best-loved monarchs, has been revealed to be the translator behind an English version of an ancient text by Tacitus who described the high politics, treachery and debauchery of the Roman elite.

Author Laksmi Pamuntjak has just finished her Australian book tour.

I prefer to call Memikirkan Kata a ‘lesson-learned aspects of writing’ book instead of a technical guide.

A female superhero will use her powers to fight sex crimes in India and the stigma that trafficking survivors face, in the third installment of a comic series due to be released this week.

Society has become more aware of political issues, and the increasing presence of political commentary within the media is proof of that.

The recognition of batik as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity on Oct. 1, 2009, which also marked National Batik Day, has expanded the market for the traditional cloth as Indonesians now wear batik shirts or dresses, or even kebaya, to work.