Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week | Adelaide festival

Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week | Adelaide festival

The director of Adelaide writers’ week, Louise Adler, has resigned after the board of the Adelaide festival announced it had dumped the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the literary event. “I... Read more »
The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence | Autobiography and memoir

The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence | Autobiography and memoir

The night before her wedding to Salman Rushdie in 2021, the American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths was fretting about her best friend. Kamilah Aisha Moon was due to read a... Read more »
Spanish author lambasts linguistic academy over social media influence | Spain

Spanish author lambasts linguistic academy over social media influence | Spain

One of Spain’s best-known novelists has launched a withering attack on the country’s leading linguistic authority, saying it ignores the opinions of writers when it comes to changes in language, and that... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 14th

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 14th

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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 14th

I’m a crime writer. Here’s why we make the best Traitors contestants | Crime fiction

This time last year a rumour swept through the close-knit British crime-writing community, not whispered in a quiet moment in the billiard room but shared on group chats and message boards. The... Read more »
Nero book awards: Benjamin Wood and Sarah Perry among prize winners | Books

Nero book awards: Benjamin Wood and Sarah Perry among prize winners | Books

Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper. Meanwhile, Claire Lynch won the debut fiction category for A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s... Read more »
Nero book awards: Benjamin Wood and Sarah Perry among prize winners | Books

Leah Williamson and Richard Osman back National Year of Reading | Books

Leah Williamson, Michael Morpurgo, Julia Donaldson and Richard Osman are among those who have thrown their weight behind a new nationwide push to get people reading for pleasure, as the government and... Read more »
The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence | Autobiography and memoir

Scott Adams, Dilbert creator and conservative commentator, dies aged 68 | US news

Scott Adams, the cartoonist behind the satirical comic strip Dilbert and conservative commentator, has died aged 68 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. On Tuesday, Adams’s ex-wife Shelly Miles revealed his death... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 13th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 13th

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