Today at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, these two book fairs open. 390 Thai and international publishers are scheduled to...

On Wednesday 29th March Siam Inter will release the Thai edition of Spirit House. This is the third Vincent Calvino novel to be...

One of the hidden treasures of Japanese literature is found in the 67 novels and 76 short stories by Edogawa Rampo. Most of his novels...

According to AP, Thai police are investigating to determine whether Thanakorn Pakdeepol, aged 27 years old, who used a hammer to...

The big news today was the attack on Tuesday 21 March 2006 on Erawan Shrine located at the Rajprasong intersection. A Thai man aged 27...

Publisher’s Lunch has an item about the diminishing market for fiction in Australia. What is happening in Australia is not isolated. It...

At Slate, Daphne Merkin asks question about polygamy as the basis of an HBO series in Boy meets Girl, Then more Girls: “The co-writers of...

The winner of the 2006 Dilys award has been awarded to the novel Thirty three Teeth by Colin Cotterill. This is an important award. The...

You have to wonder how commentators on well-known authors jazz up their copy with statements such as this: “Sex, specifically sex with...

Getting the title of a book right is never easy. The perfect title makes picking up the book irresistible. Publishers shy away from...

May, 1992: I went to Sanam Luang that May. 80,000 people had gathered to bring down the government. Police and soldiers surrounded the...

When I was a student at Oxford, I sat in on lectures by Professor Ronald Dworkin. He is the foremost legal philosopher in the...

This from the recent issue of U.S NEWS: “Long before the National Endowment for the Arts released its 2004 report "Reading at Risk: A...

It seems anytime there is a convergence of three like things in Thailand, then that place becomes a “hub”. The latest candidate for hub...

Hiesenberg discovered the uncertainty principle rest on the wave-particle duality of nature. In effect the uncertainty principle states...

The Thai Publishing and Bookselling Association had a stand at this London Book Fair (March 5-7). They were in London under the support...

As an author whose literary agents attended the London Book Fair (March 5-7) this year, I have an interest in learning more about the...

Any author writing about another culture is aware that many ordinary day-to-day rituals and habits often rest on invisible premises...

Here’s a startling fact: in 2004 when 195,000 books were published in the United States only 891 on that number were translations of...

Over at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind Sarah Weinman has opened a discussion on whether private novels are being bought and...