Books

She started sniffing glue at age six to ease the hunger of life in a Brazilian slum.

The practice of watching an entire season's worth of a television series in one go has made "binge-watch" the "Word…

The first session of Tanta International Poetry Festival will be launched Friday by the Gharbiya Poetry Association for Writers and…

With only two months to go before the copyright of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" expires, debate is raging over whether the…

Egyptian writer Soad Suleiman won the 2015 King Juan Carlos International Award sponsored by the "Word Museum" in the category…

Author Gamal al-Ghitany's novel “Zeiny Barakat” depicts repression and fear in Arab life, drawing similiar conclusions between repression during the…

Violence against writers and a misplaced sense of political correctness pose new dangers to freedom of speech in the West,…

Swedish author David Lagercrantz will write two more books featuring tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander, on top of his recent sequel…

Marlon James became the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker fiction prize on Tuesday for "A Brief History of…

Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of life in the former Soviet…