For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Several members of the Goonies cast reunited 40 years after the film premiered to celebrate Ke Huy Quan at the TCL Chinese Theater. Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Kerri Green, Josh Brolin, and The Goonies ...

In between those New Year's Resolutions to eat healthier and exercise more, why not give your brain a bit of a workout too? Regular reading leads to positive impacts on your mental and emotional ...

"I'm not involved in a lot of things with demure female leads. That's not my vibe," says Kaling. That decidedly applies to her first 2025 title, 'The Rules of Fortune' ...

STARTING today, 4.37 million Malaysians have reason to celebrate as the minimum wage increases to RM1,700 a month from RM1,500 previously. This compares to the median salary of RM2,602 for ...

Everything in my life until that point would now be known as “BBC” – Before Bowel Cancer. Morris-Marr’s diagnosis came seven weeks after the 2019 launch of her debut book, Fallen ...

"But I'll find my Tommy Shelby [from Peaky Blinders] someday ... a semi-retired writer of children and self-help books, and her husband Steve moved on to the water when he lost his job.

Working 'completely changed' my quality of life ... than defence - and that figure is set to rise. Scotland's first ever tourist tax could be approved today Scotland's first ever tourist tax ...

ON Jan 7, leaders of Malaysia and Singapore signed an agreement for the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) – marking a new chapter in fortifying the long-standing bilateral ...

A pair of 19th-century novels by an obscure American author is sending the internet into a frenzy as they had predicted Donald Trump's return to the White House and his youngest son Barron Trump's ...

In what CEO Gareth Samples (pictured) describes as ‘a transformative year’, TPFG has merged with Belvoir and acquired GPEA (The Guild and Fine & Country) and has seen a substantial rise in revenue.