The Sahitya Akademi, India's top literary institution, has awarded Janice Pariat the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for her debut collection of short...
Month: August 2013
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore reviews Ma Jian's "The Dark Road" in WSJ In 2009, the Chinese author Ma Jian was traveling through...
The second day of the Beijing International Book Fair continued to see crowded booths and satisfied exhibitors despite the 80-minute...
In a ceremony at the 2013 Beijing International Book Fair, Guinness World Records (GWR) and China’s Foreign Language Teaching and...
Thanks to Miley Cyrus, the word "twerk" has been everywhere this week. And now it's going in the dictionary. Cyrus' gyrations...
How to make sure a book has a shot at getting noticed: LA Times An order of one book, neat....
Amazon Publishing executive Laurence Kirshbaum has been accused of sexual assault in a court filing by a woman with whom he had...
David Ulin reviews Snow Hunters in LA Times Paul Yoon's "Snow Hunters" is a novel in which little happens —...
Chinese subway riders using Shanghai's Metro Line 2 will soon have their very own unofficial library. Pick up a book...
Ian Johnson’s Introduction to Cat Country by Lao She, published in a translation by William A. Lyell, by Penguin Books (China) in association with...
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