It was a different era when “The Island” was first published in 2005. The book became an international hit and forever tied the author, Victoria Hislop, with Greece. 

In late June 1997 – just 17 months after the Imia crisis and while Greek-Turkish relations remained extremely taught – I met in Washington with Peter Petrihos from the State Department’s Southeast Europe bureau at the time.

The Center for European Constitutional Law (CECL) is organizing an online event on the world after Covid-19 on the occasion of the publication of a book by public and social law professor Xenophon Contiades titled “Pandemic, Biopolitics and Rights.” 

When I spoke with Fukuyama on Skype recently, I asked him why liberal democracy creates so much boredom. He sighed and smiled, but instantly pointed out a contradiction that is central to the human spirit.

It was a Sunday night a few weeks back and Marianna Theodoropoulou kept looking at her watch. She was determined to be on her balcony at 9 p.m. sharp to applaud the country’s hospital doctors and nurses battling the coronavirus crisis.

For reasons that had to do with the fact that the newly born nation had to primarily fight against naval isolation, the US developed a close connection with the Eastern Mediterranean from the early days of its existence.

A new book published by the Gennadius Library and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation comprises 12 studies on the city.

A man reads in one of three branches of the Greek Parliament’s library, in the central Athens district of Kolonos, during a visit to the facility by a group of MPs, on Wednesday. The Lenorman Street branch is located in a former state tobacco plant that was built in 1927 and listed as a historic monument in 1989. Founded in 1884, the library is a trove of important historical books, documents and other archival material. [Panagiotis Tzamaros/InTime News]

The Greek island of Amorgos is thought to have been named after amorgis, a rare type of flax that grows on its craggy mountains and was used in ancient times to produce the thread with which its much-coveted chitons were made.

Geoffrey Robertson’s new book “Who Owns History? Elgin’s Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure” has just come out following years of research. 

We Need Books, an Athens-based NGO dedicated to creating small libraries and cultural spaces that provide marginalized refugees and migrants with access to literature, information, conversation and company, is launching its new venue.

English writer Victoria Hislop, best known for her historical novel “The Island,” set on Spinalonga off Crete, is in Greece presenting her latest novel set in Greece, “Those Who Are Loved.”

The presentation of Eleni Varvitsioti and Viktoria Dendrinou’s book “The Last Bluff” (published by Papadopoulos) took place on Monday evening in a packed amphitheater at the Benaki Museum annex on Pireos Street, south of central Athens.

Following its publication in Greek last year, “The Last Monk of the Strofades: Memories from an Unknown Greek Island” is now available in English from Abbeville Press.

Journalist, writer and amateur photographer Nikos Vatopoulos plots out the stories that make the history of Greece’s capital.

“Altogether between 1919 and summer 1923, about 1.5 million Greeks were cleansed from Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace. Almost all were resettled in Greece. But several hundred thousand Ottoman Greeks had died. Either they were murdered outright or were the intentional victims of hunger, disease, and exposure,” Israeli historians Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi write in their extensive study that was recently published in English.

If you’re lucky enough to fly to Amsterdam on a cloudless day, your gaze will inevitably be drawn to the unusually geometrical, handmade mosaic that is the Dutch countryside. 

New York Times best-selling US author Kristin Hannah will be meeting fans and signing books at Public's central Athens store at 12 noon on Thursday, May 9. 

Cyprus’ former foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides spoke of the need to engage with the Cyprus problem without fear or prejudice during a book launch event on Friday.

The Benaki Museum is holding its annual book bazaar at its Pireos Street annex, where its high-end art publications will be available at discounts of 50-70 percent, as well as a selection of secondhand books at extremely low prices.