Swedish author and artist Margareta Magnusson, whose book on “death cleaning” became a global phenomenon, has died aged 92. Magnusson’s 2017 book, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, introduced international readers... Read more »
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Presenter Yong Yao, Ph.D.Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science Goal The goal of this concept is to continue supporting an integrated BRAIN® Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) Coordinating Unit for Biostatistics,... Read more »
7 The Professor (written 1846; published 1857) by Charlotte Brontë This was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. It was rejected by publishers nine times. Written in the voice of a... Read more »
The annual London book fair wrapped on Thursday, marking the end of three days that saw 33,000 people connected to the book industry – agents, publishers, authors, among others – gather at... Read more »
As I write this, Iranians around the world are holding their breath for the end of the murderous Islamic Republic. More than three years after the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement began, amid renewed... Read more »
Salman Rushdie said he’s tired of being everyone’s “free speech Barbie” four years after the author survived an assassination attempt that left him blinded in his right eye. “It’s a subject I’m... Read more »
When Korean novelist Han Kang won the Nobel prize in literature in 2024, the committee praised her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. In other words, Han’s work... Read more »
My earliest reading memoryMemories from my childhood are opening up as I read to my own young children at the moment. Something in the pictures of Helen Cooper’s The Bear Under the Stairs or... Read more »