During tough economic times when U.S. consumers are trying to cut back the indulgence they can't seem to live without is books.
Farmers in Shaanxi who offer goats and pigs to the Mountain God at Spring Festival, writers in the northwestern province offer themselves to the Muse of Literature, says Gao Jianqun.
Irish-American writer Colum McCann whose works are being translated into Chinese, shares his views on how the world is getting bigger, and also smaller.
U.S. author J.D. Salinger, who wrote the American post-war literary classic "The Catcher in the Rye," has died of natural causes aged 91.
Amid the color and celebration of the Jaipur Literary Festival, heralded as Asia's largest, one question has furrowed many brows and sparked anxious debate: is fiction writing in English in India past its prime?
China's best-selling writer Han Han announced the launch of Chorus of the Soloists this month and he'll be the magazine's editor-in-chief.
Toronto-based writer realizes a long cherished dream to write about the Chinese immigrants who went to mine gold in the Rocky Mountains.
Disanji, the largest private bookstore in Beijing, closed at 6 pm yesterday for the last time after losing almost 50 million yuan in its three years in business.
Drinking wine is more fun than reading about it unless you have a book in one hand and a glass in the other.
Bestselling author Liao Hsin-chung says that the changes in Taiwan in the past 30 years have been no less dramatic than in the mainland.
They're every editor's nightmare, those banal, trite, overused expressions for absolutely everything that often say absolutely nothing.
Three reasons to totally agree with Holden