Ernest Hemingway

Public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work

Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023.

The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of a whipsmart detective, which has even ensnared Enola Holmes, will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring Jan. 1 include Conan Doyle's last Sherlock Holmes work.

Iran has opened possibly the world’s biggest bookstore

In a country where literary censorship is official government policy, the fact that Iran has opened what could be the world’s biggest bookstore is all the more astonishing.

Located in the Abbasabad Hills in the north-east of the Iranian capital, the Tehran Book Garden was officially opened in July.

Naked defiance

Erospolis delights in the defiance of artists, writers, jurists and other intellectuals, particularly if it involves a flash of skin and demands an end to the state of emergency ... in ParisThe weather is freezing but who cares?

Remembering Agatha Christie at 'Black Week Turkey' events in Istanbul

One of the world?s oldest luxury hotels, the Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah in Istanbul, will host the ?Black Week Turkey? event on Oct. 22-24 in honor of Agatha Christie?s 125th birthday with the attendance of the famous author?s grandson and a number of leading crime fiction authors. 

Jumeirah Group will run second hotel in Turkey after Pera Palace

Luxurious Gulf hotel chain Jumeirah Group will begin to run its second hotel in Turkey, the Golden Savoy Hotel, in May after the historic Pera Palace Hotel Jumeirah.

The new hotel is planned to be opened on May 1 in the Aegean resort of Bodrum in line with a deal inked by the group with Turkey's Hedef Investment and Tourism Facilities.