Literature

5 years after the explosion in Hitrino, the village has been completely restored. The houses are new, but the souls are empty, say the locals. People admit that they still live in fear, and the relatives of the victims continue to live with nightmarish memories. How the incident turned dozens of lives and will they receive justice - says Michaela Karabelova.

The first edition of "Harry Potter" was sold at auction for the magical 471 thousand dollars in the United States.

Travel back in time

Canada's postal service on Nov. 25 celebrated the 60-year writing career of "The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood by featuring her image on a stamp.

A rare Islamic atlas discovered in the attic of a historic home has sold for more than four times its estimate at auction, BBC News has reported.

The atlas was one of only 50 produced and it was discovered at Weston Hall in Northamptonshire, home of the Sitwell family for more than 300 years.

If we are to judge how artworks develop, we should be looking back at how life becomes more meaningful for artists and how they give meaning to life. For some artists, a meaningful life can be discovered through awareness and collaborating tales and mythologies in it. Canan is the kind of artist who values life and mythological thinking at the same time.

The “Canon of Medicine”, a highly popular text, represented a synthesis of medical knowledge from Greco-Roman, Persian & Indian sources

Internationally acclaimed author Wilbur Smith died at his home in South Africa on Nov. 13 after a decades-long career in writing, his office said. He was 88.

With 49 titles under his belt, Smith became a household name, his swashbuckling adventure stories taking readers from tropical islands to the jungles of Africa and even Ancient Egypt and World War II.

The most well-known story about the relationship between ancient Greeks & their pet canines comes from Homer & his “Odyssey”

Turkey's Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk has written a letter on behalf of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, one of Italy's most outstanding educational institutions, making an urgent call to Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi to save Venice from rising sea levels.