Canongate has landed James Crawford's The Edge of the Plain, a blend of history, travel writing and reportage tracing the evolution and cultural significance of land borders. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-19 20:30:23 UTC ]
Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, filmmaker and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2021 for her "cultural significance" charting "the development of Zimbabwe from a British colony to an autocratic and troubled-free state". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-08 05:20:07 UTC ]
When I think of literary authors, I often imagine my college reading list — and my lecturer’s pontifications on how their books have been meticulously etched into the canon of cultural significance. I rarely think about storytime with Mom and Dad. So would you believe it if I told you that Nobel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-10-11 11:00:05 UTC ]
New book charts the remarkable history of Britain’s best-selling newspaperThe ignominy of the News of the World’s closure in 2011, itself preceded by years of hacked celebrity gossip and sleazy scandals, has tended to obscure the newspaper’s social and cultural significance in previous eras.It... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Business psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic reveals the reasons why the online publisher is so successfulWhen it comes to online content and storytelling, there are few sites as savvy as BuzzFeed, a platform that combines artificial and human intelligence to detect, produce and increase viral... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]