The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s sharp-witted novel Theory & Practice, a Sri Lankan–born grad student at a university in Melbourne, has a similar, self-flagellating feeling early in the book. She ...

Happy Tuesday, book lovers! Looking for your next great read? This week, Woman's World Book Club is back with a slew of ...

ASHLAND Nature has always been a friend to Steve Holt. “As a young man, I often went to the hills for solace, roaming and thinking,” he said, noting he hunted and fished with his father, but that wasn ...

The funding will help ensure the fire company has the necessary space to operate efficiently and effectively, officials say.

Kathmandu: Ten writers from Nepal will join as speakers at the Kalinga Literary Festival in India. Nepalese billionaire, ...

The just-concluded London Book Fair 2025 saw its largest-ever participation from China, drawing strong interest from global ...

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...

We sat down with author China Miéville to discuss the new limited edition re-release of his seminal 2000 novel Perdido Street ...

Israel Carries Out Deadly Strikes in Gaza and Warns of More Attacks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office cited Hamas’s refusal “to release our hostages” in authorizing the first ...

This year’s UK Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation shows the range and variety of the Arabic literary work now being ...

“Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the first time. “The Tokyo Suite” explores class divisions in ...

Japan’s three historic nuclear events — the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II and the 2011 nuclear plant meltdowns in Fukushima — form a key backdrop for ...