Ancient Egyptian is one of the first written languages, appearing around 3200 BCE in hieroglyphs. While the spoken form evolved over thousands of years, its latest stage, Coptic, is still used in the ...

Hence the sisters—because if a woman is strange and unnerving, a group of them connected by the inherited bonds that link ...

Edinburgh is set to host an international conference as it celebrates 20 years since becoming the world’s first Unesco City of Literature. The Scottish capital gained the permanent designation ...

Natalie Portman helms a monthly book club, where she picks a new read every month and interviews the authors — see all of her ...

Stores, dealing with long lines, are rapidly selling out, and printing presses have been working around the clock to produce more. Han, who was born in 1970 in the city of Gwangju, comes from a ...

An increase in multicultural literature around the world can provide self-empowerment in students, cultural pluralism and fresh perspectives for students and teachers alike. Not only are people of ...

Literary Travel: 8 Must-Read Novels That Will Transport You Around the World These books tap into the heart of their vivid settings to explore themes of identity, belonging and transformation.

Inspired by his own lookalike, photographer François Brunelle has photographed hundreds of dopplegängers worldwide that will have you seeing double.

Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...