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The 2025 cycle of the Sharjah International Book Fair Awards program is open for submissions in four top categories…

This punchy detective novel packs not just one, but two intertwined mysteries. A classic crime procedural that pulls back the curtain on a group of well-connected people who are used to getting away...

A new report from researchers at the University of London and University of Florida found that only 16% of adults read for pleasure on a given day in 2023, the lowest rate in the 20-year period...

The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax.

My dear friends, welcome back! It’s time for another installment of Am I the Literary Asshole?, the comedy advice column that definitely called shotgun first so you have to take the backseat. Those…

Dan Fesperman's spy caper Pariah follows a disgraced comic-politician who's recruited by the CIA. The Dancing Face, by Mike Phillips, is a crime caper that confronts the spoils of colonialism.

Starting with “That Smell” in 1966, he wrote with stark power about themes of repression in the Egyptian police state.

The author of the YA novel Holes and the Wayside School series has written his first novel for adults. It's a fairy tale involving a princess and potions – but one focused squarely on growing old.

When I first told her I was in love with a woman, my mother insisted I had been “sought out.” She spat it like I’d somehow been lured down the wrong dark alley, falling into an untoward lifestyle b…

This episode goes behind the scenes of the 1995 documentary; new mixes of “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” are coming out; and an updated book is due.

Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian isn’t your average campus novel. Emily joins us to talk about writing comedy, marriage plots, reading classics and more. The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya is a gripping tale...

An excerpt from "Before They Were Men" by Jacob Tobia

The author of “Open Wide” discusses mommy issues, daddy issues, and the ethics of recording perfect strangers

The best-selling horror and fantasy author Silvia Moreno-Garcia recommends books about the terrors that lurk under the stairs.

“Not her politics, but the relentlessness and archness of her characters,” says the prizewinning playwright behind “Stereophonic,” which is now up in London.

The Bulgarian market, while cautiously optimistic for 2026, knows that adopting the euro may mean some constriction at first…