Clear by Carys Davies has won this year’s Ondaatje prize for writing that “best evokes the spirit of a place”. The Welsh novelist’s third novel is set on a Scottish island during... Read more »
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The man found guilty of attempted murder of Salman Rushdie has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. On Friday, the Chautauqua county court issued the sentence to Hadi Matar, 27, of... Read more »
Thomas Hardy described his fictional village of Marlott as being in an “engirdled and secluded region, for the most part untrodden as yet by tourist or landscape-painter, though within a four hours’... Read more »
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As the novelist Yiyun Li often observes, there is no good way to state the facts of her life and yet they are inescapable: she had two sons, and both died by suicide.... Read more »
The man who stabbed and partially blinded novelist Salman Rushdie in 2022 has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for an attack that also wounded a second man, a... Read more »
Dear BookBrowsers, In this issue, we cover Gliff, acclaimed author Ali Smith’s latest. Set in an impressionistically drawn dystopia traversed by two children, it explores language, authoritarianism, and meaning. Tao Leigh Goffe’s... Read more »