In a quiet corner of Southern California, where cultures converge and communities flourish, I found myself in a meaningful encounter that spoke volumes about...
Prague’s Municipal Library has been blindsided by a surge of visitors to Idiom, a cylindrical tower of 8,000 books by Slovak artist Matej Kren.
Installed...
Tianjin, China—Towering accordion steps and a fantastical spiral staircase greet visitors to a massive bookstore in northern China's Tianjin, where its striking interior is a...
The Philippines continues to grapple with serious gaps in reading comprehension. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, about 90 percent of Filipinos aged five...
DAMASCUS—Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after...
Tokyo, Japan—Publicity-shy Japanese author Haruki Murakami told his alma mater Tuesday that he was far from being a model scholar, as he collected an honorary...
Stockholm, Sweden—Author Han Kang became on Thursday the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for work characterized by the correspondence between...
Three Filipino children’s books were recognized at the 39th International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) International Congress, held from Aug. 30 to...
