That’s (kind of) the question being debated back in my homeland today as the country continues to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the publication of Ulysses, unabashed fart-enthusiast James Joyce’s modernist magnum opus about one man’s odyssey through Dublin on an Read more >
Ever wanted to see Charlotte Brontë’s intimate apparel? You’re in luck—kind of. As The Guardian just reported, a new exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, showcasing Charlotte Brontë’s wardrobe, includes this “sensual” outfit: Yes, it’s . . . huge and Read more >
73 years ago, Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali was born. During his short life (he passed at the age of 52 due to cancer), he wrote celebrated collections like The Country Without a Post Office, Rooms Are Never Finished, and A Nostalgist’s Read more >
This week we’re celebrating the 148th birthday of Gertrude Stein, experimental novelist and poet—and by extension, we’re celebrating Stein’s penchant for bending rules and subverting the expected, which started early in her career. Case in point: when she refused to Read more >
At the risk of reigniting the Sally Rooney Discourse—today, Hulu and BBC Three released a few early images from their upcoming adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling first novel Conversations With Friends, which will premiere sometime this spring. (If you somehow Read more >
Here’s an adaptation that sounds genuinely great: Deadline has just reported that Anonymous Content will develop Lauren Oyler’s breakout novel Fake Accounts as a series. Julia Garner (Ozark) will produce under her new production banner, and, amazingly, the series will Read more >
Well. Umm. Now’s your chance? Personally, it never occurred to me that I might have a midday chat with an AI version of poet Nikki Giovanni, but now—thanks to StoryFile’s Black Voices Collection—I can! Honestly, it’s not quite as weird Read more >
The pro-Trump, anti-vax pastor Greg Locke—who, after his recent ban for COVID misinformation, called Twitter “censorship Nazis”—organized and carried out a literal book burning last night in Mt. Juliet, TN, a suburb of Nashville. Locke—a true shitbag who recently claimed Read more >
This morning, Swansea University announced its longlist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize. Among UK’s most prestigious awards, the Dylan Thomas Prize celebrates work written in the English language from across the world by authors aged 39 or under, and Read more >
Ambo Anthos, the Dutch publisher of Rosemary Sullivan’s The Betrayal of Anne Frank, has indefinitely suspended printing of the book after central elements of research were called into question. The book’s thesis—that the Frank family’s location was leaked to the Read more >
If you have ever watched TV, it will come as no surprise to you that Hollywood is weirdly obsessed with books and the people who work around them. A lot of movies (especially rom-coms) revolve around bookstores (hello, You’ve Got Read more >
The PERIPLUS fellowship, a program for writers that are Black, Indigenous and people of color, is announcing its second class of fellows. This year, the PERIPLUS collective awarded the fellowship to 59 writers, who met with mentors every month to receive Read more >
Last week, in one of the latest events in a highly concerning wave of book bans sweeping the U.S., a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to ban Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about his father’s experience in the Holocaust, Read more >
It’s been much reported of late that America is in the middle of neo-puritanical book-banning frenzy. It’s horrifying but not unsurprising, particularly in the wake of a decades-long Republican strategy to consolidate power at the state and local level through Read more >
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who delight in every snowfall, who run through the banks and make angels as though they cannot feel the cold… and the ones who prefer to be indoor cats Read more >
Perhaps one of Austen fans’ favorite moments on film comes from an early scene in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. It comes before any kisses or declarations: it’s when Mr. Darcy holds Elizabeth Bennett’s hand as he Read more >
