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Jonathan Franzen, Mindy Kaling coming to NY book fairs

Author Jonathan Franzen, comedian Mindy Kaling, actor Nathan Lane and a host of other star authors and artists will be on stage this week in New York City as BookExpo America and BookCon get...

Poet Joseph Brodsky’s flat opens as museum in Russia

Russia on Friday opened the doors of a new museum dedicated to Nobel Prize-winning dissident poet Joseph Brodsky in the communal flat where he spent his youth. The poet, who was defamed by...

In Love With Death – Book Review

Satish Modi, industrialist, businessman, art patron and collector, is the unexpected author of a moving piece of writing that touches the soul and calls for us to revaluate our perceptions of...

‘Great Gatsby’ home up for sale on Long Island

The elegant home where F. Scott Fitzgerald began writing one of America's most celebrated novels, “The Great Gatsby”, is on sale on New York's Long Island for just over US$3.8 million (RM13.7...

Chelsea Clinton to publish first book

In a unique position as the child of one, and potentially two, US presidents Chelsea Clinton stepped up her growing public profile Wednesday by announcing publication of her first book. Her...

Streisand to recount life, career in memoir due in 2017

Veteran singer, actress and director Barbra Streisand, the top-selling female music artist of all time, will recount her six decades in show business in a memoir due in 2017, publishers Viking...

YouTube hit Smosh launching comic books

The comedy brand Smosh, created by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, has signed a deal to create comic books and graphic novels that will launch later this year. The Hollywood Reporter reveals...

Who is in the running for Man Booker International Prize?

Ten authors are contenders to receive the 2015 Man Booker International Prize on Tuesday. The biannual award recognises a living author's entire body of work. To be elegible for the £60,000...

Dr Mahathir to launch Volume 2 of his letters

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will launch Volume Two of a selection of his letters to world leaders during his 22-year premiership, at his Perdana Leadership Foundation office in...

Latest reads for the bookworm in you

Harper Lee, Stephen King, Sophie Kinsella... whatever your desire, from tackling a new classic to cracking open a guilty pleasure, we've got suggestions for a few soon-to-release novels for your...

Thursday marks first annual Dylan Thomas Day

The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is being honoured internationally on May 14 with literary tours, readings, screenings, social media events and even a pub crawl. After celebrations in 2014 marked...

Who to follow during the Twitter Literature Festival

Over the next few days, Twitter is playing host to a literary event in which authors such as Margaret Atwood, Jackie Collins and Lemony Snicket will try their hand at bringing stories to life 140...

Germany farewells literary lion Gunter Grass

Germany bade farewell to its literary giant Gunter Grass on Sunday at a memorial service for the Nobel winner, who died last month aged 87. His friend, US writer John Irving, gave the eulogy at...

Signed first edition of ‘100 Years of Solitude’ stolen

A signed first edition of Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has been stolen at the Bogota International Book Fair, police...

British crime writer Ruth Rendell dies aged 85

British crime writer Ruth Rendell, best known as the creator of Detective Chief Inspector Wexford, died in hospital on Saturday at the age of 85, her publisher said. Rendell, the author of more...

Ann Packer explores as she writes

Novelist Ann Packer's latest novel, "The Children's Crusade," is a modern family epic, as big and tangled as the California live oak at the centre of its characters' lives. The story spans...

Memoir about husband dying of brain tumour wins Wellcome prize

Visual artist Marion Coutts's memoir "The Iceberg" about the time she spent nursing and caring for her writer husband Tom Lubbock as he slowly died of a brain tumour was named the winner on...

18th-century book stolen in Rome recovered in Argentina

An 18th-centry book on the history of St Peter's Basilica that was stolen last year in Rome has been recovered at a bookstore in Buenos Aires, officials said Thursday. The 1748 book, which was...

Carroll, Christie, Austen: UK events fete beloved authors

Next week marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Victorian author Anthony Trollope. Throughout 2015, visitors to the UK will be able to take their pick of British authors to celebrate, with...

Shakespeare project to mark 400th anniversary

A long-gestating project to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death launches a collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) this week at the London Book...