Asian American Authors at LitFest Pasadena
LitFest Pasadena will be held throughout the Pasadena Playhouse District on Saturday, May 20, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m....
Jaipur Literature Festival arrives in USA
Jaipur Literature Festival, the world's largest literary festival of its kind, will make its mark at a number of literary and art events in...
The Lounge Chair Interview: 10 Questions with Eka Kurniawan
By Aminah Sheikh Let's get down to brass tacks. Why do you write? First of all, it is because I...
The EU together with LASALLE College of the Arts will inaugurate the European Union Writers Festival on May 26
Celebrating 60 years of the European Union (EU) and 40 years of EU-ASEAN ties, the EU together with LASALLE...
Book review: Hassan Daoud's No Road to Paradise – a prize-winning exploration of human struggle
By M Lynx Qualey Lebanese novelist Hassan Daoud is a master chronicler of bodily illness, uneasy relationships and social isolation. In...
Authors, thinkers to grace ZEE JLF's The British Library edition
With over 70 eminent authors and thinkers, the British Library here will be transformed into a literary platform as it...
Excerpts: Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan
Shodancho was meditating, buried in the hot sand with only his head poking out, when one of his men approached...
The significant other
By Tabish Khair A collection of Urdu stories that question implicit generalisations about writings from small towns An anthology of...
Interview: 'We're Living in a World Where Utility Has Replaced Empathy'
By Omair Ahmad From a Clash of Civilizations, the global dialogue has moved to the fragility of civilisation as a concept...
Science fiction's new golden age in China, what it says about social evolution and the future, and the stories writers want world to see
By Rachel Cheung The science-fiction genre in China was little known before Liu Cixin was honoured with the Hugo Award for...