Facing what he calls Romania's 'extremely shameful record' in literacy and book culture, Bucharest MP Ovidiu Raeţchi is talking up his 'Pact for Books' aimed at boosting book sales.

 

Ahead of the World Cup in Russia, PEN America issues a letter demanding the release of imprisoned Ukrainian writer and filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who began a hunger strike in May.

 

With its hallmark requirement that expert academic works be readable by ordinary citizens, the 46-year-old Wolfson History Prize this year goes to a book on faith.