The Hungarian writer has been honored for a work that "reaffirms the power of art in the face of apocalyptic terror." ...

Don’t be misled by the small size of this book. It’s an amazing, wonderful book that will surprise and delight you. Otsuka, author of When the Emperor Was Divine, does something in this book that few ...

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

On the reading list this week is a book that repositions South Asia as democracy’s most vital terrain, a prison memoir on the relentless grind of injustice, and a classic volume on the life and teachi ...

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit ...

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town. By Barbara Demick. Random House; 352 pages; $28. Granta; £18.99. The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier. By Benno Weiner. Cornell University ...

FONG AND THE INDIANS by Paul Theroux. 199 pages. Houghfon Mifflin. $4.95. The morning-line odds are 99-1 against a young American writing a novel about contemporary Africa that is neither artistically ...

The concept was simple yet profound: paint on the board with water, watch your creation come to life, and then let it fade as ...