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BulgakovThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho has sold millions of copies, been translated into 80 languages, and holds the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author. It has changed lives. People get tattoos of its quotes. It is, by any commercial measure, one of the most successful novels ever written. And literary people cannot stand it.
Few modern world leaders have left behind as large a body of writing as Ali Khamenei, a man who spent decades translating ancient Islamic texts, lecturing on prayer and patience, and building a political theology that shaped an entire nation. Now, following his assassination in February 2026, his books stand as the most complete record of what he believed and why.
Lars BeckerWhether artificial intelligence should play a role in creative and intellectual life is a debate that has taken hold across media, academia, and literature, and it has now reached the pulpit.
Marshall McLuhan died in 1980, which means he never saw a smartphone, never scrolled a feed, never talked to a chatbot. And yet his central idea has never been more relevant or more urgently ignored than it is right now.
How a small Slavic people's folklore became one of European literature's most enduring moral fables
Nadja BeckerEnglish author Ken Follett's latest historical novel, published in 2025, transports readers approximately 2,500 years into the past to explore the lives of Neolithic people. We know remarkably litt
