A new book, “The Queen Up Close,” has given Spaniards an uncomfortably close look at their queen’s conservative views.

A widely used textbook’s version of how American and Soviet forces took control of Korea in 1945 has angered conservatives in the country.

A widely used textbook’s version of how American and Soviet forces took control of Korea in 1945 has angered conservatives in the country.

Heraldo Muñoz overcame his initial reluctance to write about his past when he realized that General Pinochet had affected an entire generation in Chile.

Some 200 leftist thinkers from around the world convened in the capital for a few days to discuss transitions toward socialism.

Mr. Mphahlele’s 1959 memoir, “Down Second Avenue,” vividly dramatized the injustices of apartheid and became a landmark work of South African literature.

Ingo Schulze’s coldly satirical fiction has two targets: East Germany’s stultifying Communist regime — and the capitalist tide that flooded in from the West once the wall came down.

Murat Belge, one of Turkey’s most important intellectuals, is also one of Istanbul’s most erudite tour guides.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to take a publishing company to court unless it withdraws from bookstores a “voodoo manual” that includes a doll bearing the president’s likeness.

Leslie T. Chang’s deeply affecting book tells the story of the invisible foot soldiers who made China’s stirring rise possible: the country’s 130 million migrant workers.