Quote of the Day by Keira Knightley: 'In this business, fame lasts for a...'—Inspiring quotes by the Pride & Prejudice actorQuote of the Day: Actress Keira Knightley shares a powerful quote about the transient nature of fame. She highlights how quickly success ca...
29 Apr, 2026, 10.21 PM IST
ChatGPT's taste for literary nonsense sparks alarmOpenAI's GPT models can often be fooled into declaring that "pseudo-literary" nonsense is great, a German researcher has found. His researc...
26 Mar, 2026, 10.17 PM IST
Renee Nicole Good remembered as a prize-winning poet — here’s the award-winning poem she wroteA prize-winning poet, Renee Nicole Good, was tragically killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. The 37-year-old mother's death occurred duri...
08 Jan, 2026, 08.05 PM IST
TikTok's owner wanted to publish books, not anymoreNews of the press's demise, which was reported earlier by the The Bookseller, came as a shock to authors who were swayed by the possibility...
21 Jun, 2025, 10.05 AM IST
Frankfurtive glances from the very heart of global book tradeFrankfurt Book Fair 2024 had publishers, including the only participating university press from India, making a big deal of book deals – an...
16 Nov, 2024, 11.08 PM IST
Salman Rushdie lives, but loses use of eye and handRushdie, 75, spent years in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death after publi...
24 Oct, 2022, 12.25 AM IST
Jaipur Literature Festival's 16th edition to return on January 19; Nobel, Booker winners to take partThe fest is expected to see participation by over 250 authors, politicians & pop-culture icons.
04 Oct, 2022, 12.18 PM IST
'Wolf Hall' trilogy novelist Hilary Mantel, who won the Booker twice, dies aged 70She was known for her bestselling historical account about the life of Thomas Cromwell.
23 Sep, 2022, 05.42 PM IST
Sterling Lord, uniquely enduring literary agent, passes away at 102Lord died Saturday in a nursing home in Ocala, Florida, according to his daughter, Rebecca Lord.
05 Sep, 2022, 09.16 AM IST
Attention, bibliophiles! Jaipur Literature Festival 2022 to be held in 'hybrid' modeThe festival will see participation by over 250 authors, thinkers & icons across the world.
16 Nov, 2021, 10.32 AM IST
John le Carre -master of Brit spy thrillers, and the man who gave us George Smiley -passes away at 89 after battling pneumoniaHe wrote 25 novels and one memoir in a career that spanned over six decades.
14 Dec, 2020, 11.55 AM IST
With people stuck at home due to the coronavirus lockdown, a writing boom has sparkedThe pandemic lockdown has not just spawned a wave of first-time authors - including celebrities who have a story to tell- but also encourag...
21 Nov, 2020, 12.14 AM IST
Multi-million dollar book contracts could await ObamasThe book contracts could be more than enough to pay the estimated $22,000 monthly rent for the nine-bedroom home the Obamas will occupy in ...
06 Sep, 2016, 08.44 AM IST
Why Andrew Wylie is making headlinesWylie is a literary agent who represents heavyweights like Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk.
02 Nov, 2014, 11.00 AM IST
Devotion scores over reasonThis happened when the world wasn’t wired; when e-mail meant elephant mail; when logs written in long hand were yet to turn into blogs. Tha...
09 May, 2009, 03.43 AM IST
- Fatima seals deal with UK publisher; memoir out in 2 years
Slain former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto memoir by her niece Fatima Bhutto will be released in two years.
25 May, 2008, 03.08 PM IST
- HC restrains Zee TV from using music without license of IPRS
The Delhi High Court has restrained Zee Entertainment from using musical compositions, lyrics and songs in its programmes without obtaining...
18 Jul, 2007, 08.39 PM IST