A French author has written in graphic detail about her eight-month affair with disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, calling the relationship “field work” for a controversial new book.

Author Haruki Murakami's new novel will hit book stores in April, three years after the final installment of “1Q84,” his Japanese publisher has said.

Writer Geoff Johns has taken DC Entertainment's Green Lantern and its associated characters through brightest day and blackest night, but after nine years of scripting tales about the galactic police force whose rings are powered by will, he's leaving the series in May with issue No. 20 to focus on the Justice League and its related titles.

Dozens of renowned international and local writers gathered Friday at Myanmar's first international literary festival to celebrate the country's new-found freedom of expression.

The Chinese version is no easier to read than the original, the loyal-minded translator assures, but James Joyce's “Finnegans Wake” has still sold out its initial run in China — with the help of some big urban billboards.

Two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel has snagged the top honor at the Costa Book Awards for her novel “Bring Up the Bodies.”

Stefan Bachmann is only 19, but his darkly mysterious debut novel set in a parallel world of faeries, goblins and child snatchers has already earned him comparisons to J.K. Rowling, Dickens and Dostoyevsky.

Stilted gaits and mindless shambling did nothing to stop demand for Image Comics' “The Walking Dead” series, with the 100th issue of Robert Kirkman's acclaimed series garnering the top spot as 2012's top-selling comic book.

Jayne Cortez, a forceful poet, activist and performance artist who blended oral and written traditions into numerous books and musical recordings, has died. She was 78.

A new book has revealed rare historical gems buried in New Zealand's national archives, including a bizarre WWII plan to create a “tsunami bomb” and military files detailing supposed UFO sightings.