The judges for the category this year are the poet and activist Heather Kathleen Moody Hall, proprietor of Green Feather Book Company; Tiya Miles, a history professor at Harvard whose book, “All... Read more »
The AAPI- and woman-owned Cupid’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore located in the vibrant Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, specializes in the romance genre, and it brims with feminine aesthetics, bookish merchandise, new romance... Read more »
When Siang Lu found out he’d won the Miles Franklin literary award, he had a physical reaction. “I was in such shock that I lost all feeling in my hands and legs,”... Read more »
The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous... Read more »
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 May 28 2025 The Kenyan writer Ngugi wa, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi,... Read more »
On Iowa City’s Market Street stands a low-slung, trailer-like red building. This is Dave’s Fox Head Tavern, one of the sites where the official culture and the counterculture of this most literary... Read more »
Oisín Fagan, 33, grew up in County Meath and lives in Dublin. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse comic fiction prize with his first novel, Nobber, about the... Read more »
We readers of Mathias Énard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild know something that the novel’s protagonist could not: No one, at least in this corner of France, ever really dies.... Read more »
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