Most literary festivals are placid affairs in which writers exchange ideas and autographs and occasionally get tanked. But these two festivals were overshadowed by the political contexts in which they occurred.

SRINAGAR, India -- Indian-administered Kashmir's first major literature festival has been canceled after local writers and artists said it would give ...

Do not read from your work simply because you think you have to. You don't. You deserve better - and so do those wonderful, weird book lovers.

I feel as if it's my personal mission to make over every dowdy author I see. I haven't quite learned how to do this tactfully, despite the strong temptation.

The Beirut39 festival is the last event of Beirut's year as the World City of Books and it has created a talking-shop for writers of very different cultures and literatures.