An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. “Something Rotten,” Andrew Lipstein’s ...

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BEIJING: China’s cultural industry maintained its steady expansion in 2024, with new business models continuing to flourish, official data show. The surveyed 78,000 enterprises in the sector ...

Elżbieta Zawacka risked her life to rid her country of the Nazis. After the war, she was targeted by the Communist authorities. Review by Andrew Nagorski ...

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South Korea, erstwhile consumer of the imported films, music and comics books from USA and Japan, has succeeded during the last decades in developing a formidable popular culture industry. In addition ...