Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy, two of India’s most prominent and world-renowned authors, have this week spoken out against Penguin Random House India’s decision to republish Exam Warriors, a book of exam tips and advice by embattled Prime Minister Narendra Read more >
Originally, I wanted to find every literary reference in Bob’s Burgers, but the truth is there were too many to count. This is a very culturally with-it show. I would argue it rivals Gilmore Girls in the number of writers and book Read more >
Today at the opening of the International Literature Festival Dublin, Dublin’s Lord Mayor Hazel Chu announced that Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive, her first English-language novel. At €100,000, the award is the Read more >
The largest bookstore in Gaza, the beloved Samir Mansour Bookshop, was destroyed on Tuesday by an Israeli airstrike. The shop, which was established in 2008, had thousands of books, including the largest collection of English literature in Gaza, and was Read more >
On 1 July 1999, Dr. Nina Simone gave a rare performance, one of her last in Britain. After the show, Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer (and bandmate of Nick Cave in both the Bad Seeds and Grinderman) Warren Ellis crept onto Read more >
Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur fellowship, has been hired for a five-year term as a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media—despite having been pursued by Read more >
Today, it was announced that Shola von Reinhold and Jacaranda Books have won the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, which rewards outstanding literary fiction published by UK- and Ireland-based presses with no more than five full-time employees. Von Read more >
Interesting news for Matilda-heads, or Chocolate Factor-ites, or Witches: as the Irish News noted this morning, a handwritten letter by Roald Dahl, written to a fan in 1989, is up for auction with Hansons Auctioneers with a guide price of Read more >
Today, The Yale Review launched a new website: TYR. The website, designed by Pentagram, integrates the print publication with exclusive online-only content, including essays, columns, poetry, fiction, multimedia content, and more. The launch of the site allows all of the Read more >
The Association of University Presses has announced its selections for the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, now in its 56th year. The selected books are currently on virtual display; the Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Committee has not Read more >
On this day in 1930, playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry was born on the South Side of Chicago. By the age of 29, she had produced A Raisin in the Sun. The seminal drama, the first play to be written Read more >
John Cleese doesn’t know much about American bookstores but nonetheless feels confident to tweet about the subject. Looking at the bookshops where you can buy Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Bomber, I see that some States offer only one bookshop: Nebraska, N Read more >
I love it when the rights to a single short story are acquired for adaptation. Hearing the news never fails to bring a smile to my face. I imagine the writer’s incredulity when their agent calls to say: Hey, remember Read more >
Today, Viking announced that this year—which happens to markthe 60th anniversary of the publication of John le Carré’s first novel, Call for the Dead—they will publish the beloved writer’s twenty-sixth, and probably very last, novel, Silverview. Silverview will be released Read more >
This past year has brought a groundswell of labor activism—including in bookselling, where a number of stores have voted in favor of unionizing as a way of securing fair wages and treatment for workers. Below is an ongoing list of Read more >
Booksellers at Los Angeles’s indie bookstore Skylight Books announced today that they have unionized. The Skylight Bookseller Union will be affiliated with the over-700,000-member Communications Workers of America Union. Wrote the Skylight Bookseller Union on Instagram, “The booksellers of Skylight Read more >
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