All copies of American scholar Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus: An Alternative History", published by Penguin, will be recalled within six...
Month: February 2014
It’s hard not to be suspicious of anything as wholesome as World Literature. The word literature itself has come to...
With CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing lingers: The Chronicle...
The inaugural shortlist of the latest literary award on the block, the Folio Prize, has been unveiled - with a...
The early morning session on the third day of the Karachi Literature Festival —‘Baloch Literature and Landscape’ — highlighted the...
“I never thought of myself as wise or someone who could give advices to people.” This is how Navid Shahzad...
Once upon a time, marketing a book meant book readings at a dozen or so bookshops and the occasional interview...
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) will launch the country’s first MA in self-publishing this year to help writers gain...
The Korea Tourism Organization has published a guide leaflet for foreigners introducing simple recipes to make Korean food. “Easy Korean...
Wang Xiaoyu's favorite bedtime routine now is to reach for hersmartphone and play a poem. Every night at 10 pm, the 32-year-old sales executive in Shanghai logs on to a poetry-sharinggroup on the social network WeChat and listens to or reads apoem. It has become a regular pastime ever since she discovered the group, whose Chinese name literally translates to "Read a poem before you sleep". (more…)
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