A statue in Milan of a famous Italian journalist has been sprayed red and tagged with the words "racist, rapist," becoming the country's first statue targeted since a wave of similar incidents across Europe and the US.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling revealed on Wednesday she is a survivor of domestic abuse and sexual assault.
The 27th annual Ulan Bator Book Festival is set to be held in the capital of Mongolia to promote reading culture, especially among children and young people, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chilean writer Isabel Allende says the coronavirus pandemic has exposed stark inequalities that will continue to fuel protests in the US and around the globe.
The Chinese remake of Norwegian web series Skam, which has been adapted in eight countries, will start shooting in July. The news has sparked controversy among Chinese netizens, many of whom have said they are against the adaptation.
Midnight Sun, the fifth book in the young adult series Twilight will be published on August 4, the American novelist Stephenie Meyer announced Monday. The book was originally set to be released in 2008, but this plan was canceled because of the leaking of her manuscript. After more than a decade of waiting, some Chinese fans hailed the news as the “the renaissance in 2020.”
Ahead of the coming World Book Day on Thursday, the 17th national reading survey was launched on Monday. It found that more than 10 percent of Chinese people read books for over one hour a day in 2019 and Chinese adults have seen a rise in the time they spend reading digitally, although the amount of time they spend reading printed books has declined.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many non-essential businesses to close, China's physical bookstores have been looking for ways to stay afloat. One of the latest experiments sees these stores ally themselves with online food delivery companies to deliver books.
South African novelist Deon Meyer wished the deadly virus wrecking havoc in his 2016 thriller Fever had not turned into an eerily accurate depiction of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world.
A lifetime ago, a Jewish girl confided in her diary as she spent two years in isolation from the outside world in a doomed attempt to escape mortal danger.