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Award-winning screenwriter Michael Tay watches readings of books to decide if they are worth it

Michael Tay is staging his one-man play Mom And I Go To The Temple in New York.

How a Dostoevsky novella took TikTok by storm

The “solitary dreamer” in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights is resonating with Gen Z readers, like 27-year-old TikTok user Marcelo Nogueira.

Author of Saint Seiya manga series claims former aide embezzled $37 million

The Saint Seiya manga series by Masami Kurumada has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, according to specialist site Mangazenkan.

16-volume collection of works by Japanese author Haruki Murakami to go on sale from January

The collection ranges from Haruki Murakami’s debut, Hear The Wind Sing (1979), to his latest novel, The Tale Of Kaho.

Feeling lonely? These eight books might help

Psychologists, therapists and other experts share the works they recommend to people who are struggling to connect.

The Odyssey scholar Emily Wilson, a critic of the movie adaptation, is redoing her translation

Emily Wilson’s original interpretation of The Odyssey became a bestseller after it was released in 2017.

New authorised Barbie: Dreamscape YA novel feeds kidult craving for female fans

Barbie: Dreamscape author Alex Aster at a book event at a Barnes & Noble in New York on Aug 18.

The human writer is becoming an endangered species

Tech companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are snapping up books – some rare and out-of-print – scanning them and using the contents to train AI models.

‘Public servants are the No. 1 wordsmiths’: poet Joshua Yap’s lessons on leadership in sonnet form

Sing Lit Station director Joshua Yap with his new poetry collections published by Landmark Books.

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