The medical anthropologist and author talks about her latest book, American Anthrax and germ-warfare threats to the U.S.

As part of the 2012 City2Cities literary festival, Dutch poet Hagar Peeters will visit Prague to give a bi-lingual reading of her work and to conduct interviews with local writers.

A roundup of the latest literary stories from around the web.

Czech writer Arnošt Lustig (1926 -2012) is being honored by a documentary exactly one year since his death.

Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996, has died of lung cancer in her home in Southern Krakow.