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Even though July is usually a slower month in the book publishing world, there are still plenty of great new books, ...
I studied mathematics and economics at York University in the 1960s, which was a poor grounding for studying English in my ...
The Kentucky Center for the Book, a part of Kentucky Humanities, has announced the Commonwealth’s selections for the 2025 ...
Tucked away in Columbus’s historic German Village sits a literary wonderland so vast and enchanting that bookworms regularly make pilgrimages from every corner of Ohio – The Book Loft spans an ...
Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...
Soon, the art world has a new enfant terrible, but there’s more to Randall than paint and poop (yes, really.) Randall is my most beloved book that the least people have read. Whenever I bring it up in ...
Every week, critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, ...
Several books published this year have examined a creative haven in Europe’s licentious, ultraliberal capital.
At a ceremony for the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize, translator Lin King (金翎) called on writers and readers to recognize the value of Taiwan’s narratives. After receiving the Award for ...
Coffee and Coffee Houses by Ulla Heise. (Credit: amazon.in) Ulla Heise’s Coffee and Coffee Houses dives into the social and cultural history of coffee, from its early days in Abyssinia (modern-day ...
This e-book explores how Indian literature travels across languages—and what gets transformed along the way ...
Geoffrey Chaucer transformed medieval English literature by elevating Middle English as a vehicle for poetic and narrative depth. At a time when French and Latin dominated, he gave voice to everyday ...