Ngũgĩ’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his family, who said he died peacefully with family members by his side. UC Irvine ...

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Penfield Central School District staff and teachers are asking the school board to approve some new textbooks for use in ...

Author Namwali Serpell said she got bad reviews — and even death threats — after an excerpt from “Stranger Faces” was used without her permission.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and ...

The 13th Book Arsenal festival, one of Ukraine’s premier interdisciplinary cultural events attracting voices from across the ...

It’s astonishing how much we’ve discovered about these languages that have gone unspoken and unheard for millennia. In the ...

Sceptre has signed The Sisters, the first book written in English by Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri. Assistant editor ...

The impact of English-language export editions on local books sales and translation revenue dominated conversations at the ...

In conversation with Forbes India after winning one of the most prestigious literary awards for her book Heart Lamp, Mushtaq ...