From Muslim Indian women’s lives to a Danish time looper, all six contenders for the £50,000 prize are from independent presses, as translator Sophie Hughes earns an unprecedented third nominationHiromi Kawakami and Solvej Balle have made this year’s International Booker prize shortlist, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-08 13:00:18 UTC ]
While some say the rise of the self-publishing model is damaging the industry, others feel it gives authors a fairer dealThe complaint that there are too many books is not a new one. “My son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end,” reads one line in Ecclesiastes, written at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-21 16:05:44 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced their finalists for the best books published in 2024—30 books in six categories—as well as the finalists or winners of five special annual awards: two lifetime achievement awards, the NBCC Service Award, the Nona Balakian Citation, the John... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-23 15:00:05 UTC ]
The National Book Critics Circle announced the 42 finalists and four special award winners for this year’s awards cycle, its 50th, honoring books published in 2024. Winners will be named on March 20, in a ceremony to be held at the New School in New York City. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
From politics to environment, here are five books published in 2024 for all sorts of readers Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2024-12-18 14:14:44 UTC ]
Report finds that books with main characters from minority ethnicities or who are disabled or neurodivergent are written by those who do not share the protagonist’s identityMore than half of children’s books with marginalised main characters are by writers and illustrators who do not share their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-10-03 17:10:48 UTC ]
Novelist Zoë Eisenberg and journalist-turned-author Rhaina Cohen have something in common: they both published books about extraordinarily intimate friendships. Their debut books published in February of this year with strikingly similar titles—Significant Others (Eisenberg) and The Other... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-12 08:55:38 UTC ]
What are the personal, ethical, and moral considerations that go into books published posthumously? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-28 11:30:00 UTC ]
On stage and screen, self-referential works such as A Strange Loop and American Fiction are on the rise, with playful postmodernism a potent weapon in the fight against inequalityOfficers storm a ballroom, releasing a flurry of bullets that pierce through a Black man as he collapses in a pool of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-05-06 08:00:34 UTC ]
7 Questions for Kim Hye-jin, by Michelle Johnson Interviews [email protected] Mon, 04/22/2024 - 09:49 Photo © Lee HaesooOn March 20, Restless Books published Kim Hye-jin’s Counsel Culture, a novel about a woman’s scapegoating and her path to... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-04-22 14:49:51 UTC ]
Today, the International Booker Prize—which seeks to honor the best novels and short story collections in translation published in the UK and/or Ireland every year—announced its 2024 longlist. The 13 books on this year’s longlist were selected from 149 books published between May 1, 2023 and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-03-11 14:33:09 UTC ]
The Finalists for 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced today. They include books published in 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-01-25 15:20:11 UTC ]