Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King have made International Booker history with a novel that turns travel writing, romance and translation itself into something far more complicated.
Taiwanese author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King have won the 2026 International Boo…
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that most U.S. adults still read books, with print remaining the most popular format — even as digital and audio reading continue their long-term rise.
Print may have been declared “dead” many times over the past two decades, but American…
The 2026 Pulitzer Prize book winners have been announced, and this year’s list is not simply a roll call of respected authors and serious subjects. Read together, the winners suggest something more interesting: literary prizes are increasingly rewarding books that refuse to sit n…
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A long-lost version of one of the earliest known poems in the English language has been found in Rome.
The discovery was made by Dr Elisabetta Magnanti and Dr Mark Faulkner, researchers from Trinity College Dublin. They uncovered the poem inside an old handwritten manuscript h…