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The author and comedian on drawing comedic inspiration from Juvenal, finding clarity in Homer, and the comic strips she loved as a teenager

Journalist and writer Yagna Balaji looks back at a five-day programme in Goa

Japanese author Haruki Murakami says he is torn by the conflict in Israel since he has Jewish friends but understands that the situation of the Palestinians is dire

Spears’s forthcoming memoir is scheduled for release on 24 October

The Frankfurt book fair’s cancelling of an award ceremony for Adania Shibli shows the risks of imposing one narrative on our cultural space, says Berlin-based journalist and author Hanno Hauenstein

Britney Spear’s highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me” will be released Tuesday

In her latest rant, Rowling weighed lock-up against "forced denial of the reality and importance of sex"

Will Smith joined wife Jada Pinkett Smith on stage as she promoted her new memoir in her hometown of Baltimore, pledging lifelong support for her

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

In A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, Hilary Mantel writes: “There is no failed writing, only work pending.” She’s referring to the 97 notebooks that she kept in a wooden box. Mantel promised: “There is nothing I won’t say, only what I haven’t said yet.”

Yaduveer Wadiyar released a book & limited edition agarbatti to honour N. Ranga Rao, founder of Cycle Pure Agarbathi, on his birth anniversary. The book, “From Mysuru to the World”, recounts Ranga Rao's life & achievements. His son & MD of NR Group, Arjun Ranga, said it's a royal tribute…