Arts & Culture Desk

Throughout the pandemic, technology has been saving our jobs and our sanity – but in Barcelona the lockdowns have led to the revival of one of humanity’s simplest and most enduring inventions: The book.

Translation of two Iranian books ranked third at Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding held in Doha, Qatar.

Two books were unveiled in the 14th Iran International Documentary Film Festival, known as Cinéma Vérité.

A woman was gobsmacked after her family discovered a hidden room in its basement.

The Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino has a two-book deal with Harper, beginning with a novelization of ‘Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood’ that is scheduled for next summer. ‘Once Upon a Time’ will be a true Tarantino production: The book will come out first as a mass market paperback, like the old pulp novels the filmmaker loves, and will offer “a fresh, playful and shocking departure from the film,” according to Harper.

A “rare” Shakespeare book being sold by Rugby School in the UK is estimated to fetch up to £50,000 at auction.

The owners of rare books, including those by Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton, have described their "profound joy" at having them returned.

Books by and about the vice president-elect, Kamala Harris, proved to be a popular purchase following the US November 3 presidential election.

About 200 "irreplaceable" books worth more than £2.5 million ($3.2 million), which were stolen from a warehouse in London, have been found buried under the floor of a house in rural Romania, police said.

As the coronavirus spreads around the world, it is not only health professionals and politicians who are being kept busy. Amazon has been flooded with badly put together, often plagiarized “guides” to combatting the virus.

What children choose to read outside school directly influences their academic performance, according to a major new study led by the University of Malaga and University College London (UCL), and published in the peer-reviewed journal Oxford Review of Education.

Iran and its publishers are taking part in the 25th Muscat International Book Fair (MIBF) which opened at Oman Convention and Exhibition Center on Saturday.

Books are the foundation of the society's development, said Iran's ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina calling for the translation of Persian books into Bosnian.

Iran’s cultural attaché’s office in the Republic of Azerbaijan translated 60 books into Azerbaijani, IRNA reported Monday.