The Ma’ruf Amin Way tries to elaborate on a statement Ma’ruf made on Islamic economics, partnership and redistribution of assets during the Community Economic Congress held by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in 2017.

Illustrator Is Yuniarto’s love of comics and wayang is larger than life.

One of the most notable things about the book Into the Future: Indonesian Women Artists written by veteran art critics and curator Carla Bianpoen is its sheer presence.

New technologies, new perspectives: Digital literacy needs a new angle that’s richly and thoughtfully written in this crucial book.

Turin's international book fair refused on Thursday to let a publishing house run by an avowed fascist exhibit at the event following a protest by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust museum and Italian intellectuals.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau holocaust museum said on Tuesday it will boycott Turin's prestigious international book fair if a publishing house close to an Italian neo-fascist group is allowed to have a stand there.

Stebby Julionatan shares melancholic tales about his hometown of Probolinggo, East Java, in his latest poetry collection, titled Di Kota Tuhan, Aku Adalah Daging yang Kau Pecah-Pecah (In the City of God, I am the Body that You Break Into Pieces).

Penguins Books announced on Thursday that it will publish a selection of the Swedish teenage activist's key speeches.

Human rights activist Andreas Harsono’s new book Race, Islam and Power shows the damage incurred on “wonderful Indonesia” as a result of violence.

The final shortlist of the Women's Prize for Fiction has been unveiled, following the announcement of the 16-book longlist in March.

The unfinished manuscript was reportedly found among the writer's archives by his biographer and director of the Burgess Foundation, Professor Andrew Biswell.

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.