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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 ...
Kurt Vonnegut is credited with some of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, Jailbird, ...
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 ...
Thiong'o was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle prize in 2012 and, four years later, was the winner of the Pak Kyong-ni Literature Award.
The road to Frankfurt has been anything but accidental. It was the senator who, nearly a decade ago, helped secure the Philippines’ re-entry into the Frankfurt Book Fair after a 15-year absence ...
10 best books of 2025 (so far) that are a must-read 1. The Half-Life of Hope by Yaa Gyasi Genre: Literary Fiction | Publisher: Knopf Why it’s a standout: Tackles faith, diaspora, and familial ...
However, this book never received much acclaim. 10 years later, he wrote Sharmista (1859), the first successful play in Bangla literature.
A book that undertakes to interpret a variety of literature produced in Indian languages after 1947 with a wide enough sweep to negate Salman Rushdie’s old claim that prose writing in English by ...