Best Historical Fiction of the Century, New YA out this week, Neurodivergent romance novels, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-09-09 16:08:01 UTC ]
The first novel in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet was just voted the best book of the 21st century. We like it too. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-08-23 13:58:16 UTC ]
A work of literary fiction with a mystery at its center that explores family, friendship, and loss. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-07-19 16:15:00 UTC ]
Last week, The New York Times Book Review published a list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” (Well, so far, obviously. Why not just call it the best books of the last 25 years? Do they know something we don’t? Oh well.) To put it together, the Book Review surveyed “hundreds of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-16 08:56:08 UTC ]
The prize-winning poet and novelist on writing and book binding, his wariness of new technology and why literature is the ultimate immersive experienceJO Morgan has published book-length poems on subjects as diverse as the 10th-century battle of Maldon and a future Martian returning to his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-22 17:00:17 UTC ]
This afternoon, at around 3PM (EST), from Columbia University in New York City, the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction will be announced. As well as a check for a cool $15,000 dollars (which feels a little low, tbh), the victor will gain entry to a very exclusive... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 14:30:42 UTC ]
On Monday, at around 3PM (EST), from Columbia University in New York City, the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction will be announced. As well as a check for a cool $15,000 dollars (which feels a little low, tbh), the victor (if there is to be one; see 2012) will gain entry to […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-05-05 14:30:48 UTC ]
How Edith Wharton foresaw the 21st century: “The scandals documented in Wharton’s narratives serve as harbingers of the sensations that flash across our hand-held screens.” | Lit Hub Biography Peggy Orenstein delves into the endangered, male-dominated vocation of… sheep-shearing. | Lit Hub... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-01-24 11:30:01 UTC ]
The events of 2000, including the disputed election and the 9/11 hijackers' preparations, "broke" America, Andrew Rice argues. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-03-18 12:00:11 UTC ]
Review of "There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century" by Fiona Hill Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-01 14:45:07 UTC ]
ACMRS Press, the publishing division of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, is publishing all 39 of Shakespeare's plays, translated into modern English to make them more accessible to contemporary audiences. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
With its witty, ruthless skewering of the Indian middle classes, Rahul Raina’s roistering, whip-smart and deliciously fun Dehli-set crime caper, How to Kidnap the Rich, is the first great state-of-the-subcontinent novel of the 21st century. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-19 10:07:42 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has commissioned Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the Twenty-first Century, edited by Pippa Marland and Anita Roy and featuring a foreword from Bernardine Evaristo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 23:06:31 UTC ]
IN THE 21ST CENTURY, digital literary culture originating from the African continent has exploded. I still remember the early years, when Kindles first came into our lives and everyone was weighing in on whether ebooks were going to mean the death of literature. Back then, everything was fresh... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-04 18:00:58 UTC ]
Noel Bowler photographed some of the largest newsrooms across the world, exploring the physical spaces that house our modern press. With declining readership, reduced advertising and persistent questions about ‘truth’ and relevance of newspapers in the 21st century, the structures of print media... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-30 06:00:50 UTC ]
Dust off your formal wear and break out the bubbly because the National Book Awards (a.k.a. the Oscars of the book world) are nearly upon us. Yes, in just a few short hours, five dumbstruck authors will be fêted, garlanded, and welcomed into the American literary pantheon. For those of you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 17:04:53 UTC ]
Hodder has acquired The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin, "a sophisticated literary fairy tale for the 21st century" in which Cinderella decides 13 years after her happy ending that she wants her Prince Charming dead. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-23 11:12:41 UTC ]
The following is the introduction to The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, to be published by Vintage Books on July 21, 2020. Introduction copyright (c) 2020 by VanderMeer Creative, Inc. Fantasy is a broad and various category that on the one hand can feature... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-07-16 11:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of tonight’s ceremony, we looked back at every National Book Award for Fiction and Nonfiction winner of the 21st century. | Book Marks “A closeness comes from an every-day giving of attention.” Nina McLaughlin on finding the natural world in Ovid. | Lit Hub What does the debutante ball... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-20 11:30:40 UTC ]
Review of 'A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century' by Jason DeParle Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-08-30 14:00:45 UTC ]