Literary Scouts

Turkish police have rearrested the journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan, just a week after his release from prison over alleged links to the failed 2016 coup.

The artist Jim Kay, whose latest book is "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," surrounds himself with nature when he draws unnatural creatures like dragons, goblins and trolls.

In The Child That Books Built, the writer Francis Spufford, rather controversially, described fiction as "a mood altering drug".  Read more

Amazon Crossing, Amazon's publishing imprint focused on literary translation, was first announced in May 2010 and published its first book, The King of Kahel by Guinean author Tierno Monenembo, that November.  Read more

Confusing Memoir with Autobiography

Writing a memoir is not the same as writing an autobiography. In an autobiography, you typically start at the beginning of your life and record all the details you can remember, chronologically. In a memoir, you take a slice from your life-a particular theme or lesson or flavor of experience-and write about that, pretty much ignoring the rest.  Read more