New chair Oliver Simons outlines his plans and discusses why the study of languages and literature is key today.

The 77th edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair has been all about growth, global discourse, and a passion for reading across ...

She noted that "healing fiction" has become a shared trend in both Asian and European markets. "These books focus on personal ...

READING, Pa. - Oktoberfest 2025 starts today at the Reading Liederkranz. "I was just in Oktoberfest in Munich last week, so I just got back," said Karl Allmendinger, chairman of Reading Liederkranz ...

Literature remains a vital bridge across cultures in a world of growing complexity and uncertainty, bringing people together ...

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

The prominent Jewish journalist Michel Friedman was supposed to read from his latest book in the northeastern German town of Klütz — but was uninvited. Did town officials want to placate the far right ...

These standout voices from the country’s 120-creatives-strong delegation at the Frankfurt Book Fair show how Filipino stories ...

In a spot outside Berlin that’s usually a paradise for birdwatchers, volunteers have recovered nearly 2,000 dead cranes in ...

Salman Rushdie is the 2025 recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation’s Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. He will receive the honor at the Dayton Literary ...

By Justyna Pawlak and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the ...

Queens College hosted a poetry reading by Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at the Flushing-based college who was ...