New York City, a haven for centuries for writers, poets, and literary enthusiasts, is a melting pot of literary influences.

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With substantial public investment and lofty ideals, The Good Literary Agency vowed to change British literature. What went ...

South Korean author Han Kang is best known for her novel The Vegetarian and the fact she won no less than the Nobel Prize in ...

Entertaining readers for the past fifty years, Stephen King has written a ton of iconic novels that still hold up to this day ...

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Ludlow’s very own literary festival, Lit Bits, is a brand new weekend of words with a difference. Centring on play and ...

New fiction by Inverness-born writer Ali Smith is among the work longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2024. Poetry from the ...

These whimsical, escapist books have long been popular in Japan and Korea. But now translations of titles like We'll ...

From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...