Literature

The upcoming sale has drawn criticism from campaigners who had hoped to turn the facility into an arts center to honour the Irish writer's legacy.

“The Testaments” is a gripping read that goes down so easily, people may not realize what a progressive piece they’re devouring.

She called Bill Clinton "our first black president" — a turn of phrase that stirred years of debate, and for which she later expressed a measure of regret..

US novelist Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, dies aged 88

Just outside Oslo, a forest is being grown from scratch for this purpose.

A crowdfunding site has raised tens of thousands of pounds to try to keep the Lady Chatterley's Lover copy that was used in the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom.

A vaccine came too late for his daughter, Olivia.

The Nobel Foundation last year stopped the Swedish Academy from handing out the award after a string of sexual misconduct allegations against the husband of one of its board members threw the institution into crisis mode.

"He discovered at last that she had outgrown his liking. She had borne ten children and had lost many of her good looks, was growing old, in fact," a recently-unearthed letter revealed.

Nominally about the adventures of Newt Scamander and his American pals in Paris, the film is thwarted by its many subplots and cameos.

An Italian publishing house is using street graffiti in a bid to save lesser-used words from extinction and help bring them into popular discourse.

Trinidad-born British author V.S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001, has died at his home in London aged 85.

Trinidad-born British author V.S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001, has died at his home in London aged 85.

A popular legend holds that black ambulances cruise the streets looking for children to murder in order to sell their organs to wealthy buyers in western Europe.