“Palmares” — her first novel since 1999’s “Mosquito” — is an emancipation story set in 17th-century Brazil. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-09-14 09:00:08 UTC ]
With Harrow, her first novel in two decades, Joy Williams stares into the abyss. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2021-09-12 12:00:00 UTC ]
Mantle has landed The Exhibitionist, Charlotte Mendelson's first novel since her 2013 Booker-longlisted work Almost English (Mantle). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-07 21:02:28 UTC ]
From the acclaimed author of novels and short stories, 'Harrow' is a magnificent, moving story about people picking up the pieces of apocalypse. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-09-07 13:00:01 UTC ]
Atticus Lish was acclaimed for his first novel 'Preparation for the Next Life.' His second, 'The War for Gloria,' is more raw, painful and personal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-09-02 13:00:39 UTC ]
Book Reviews The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Photo by Steven Taylor / Flickr The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first novel, is textually connected to the works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-08-18 20:12:10 UTC ]
The country music superstar has teamed up with the novelist James Patterson to write Run, Rose, Run, which will be published in MarchFirst globally successful entertainer, then heroic sponsor of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine, and now novelist … Dolly Parton seems determined to prove that there... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-11 16:27:28 UTC ]
Independent publisher Influx Press is launching a new fiction prize for Black British women, in partnership with lifestyle platform Black Ballad. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-27 19:32:32 UTC ]
"The notion of 'a book' is just a convenient fiction which we books go along with because it serves the needs of the bean counters in publishing, not to mention the ego of the writers. But the reality is far more complex.” So explains “the Book”, one of the narrators of Ruth Ozeki’s fourth novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-09 19:27:08 UTC ]
The winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, Soyinka is coming out with his first novel in almost 50 years, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. The post Fifty Years Later, a New Novel Emerges appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-06-24 09:59:45 UTC ]
'Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,' historical fiction about Kepler's mother, is Galchen's first novel since 2008's 'Atmospheric Disturbances.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-06-03 14:00:33 UTC ]
Book Reviews Matthew Goode and Teresa Palmer in the TV adaptation of A Discovery of Witches (2018) / IMDB Deborah Harkness’s All Souls trilogy has taken a new life through the Sundance dramatic series, A Discovery of Witches. The novels... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-05-27 13:42:23 UTC ]
"Second Place," Rachel Cusk's first novel after the radical, brilliant "Outline" trilogy, follows a forceful woman who's had enough of difficult men. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-28 14:00:33 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the US cover for Wole Soyinka’s new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, which will be published on September 28 by Pantheon Books. This will be Soyinka’s first novel to be published in 48 years, and also the first since he won the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-04-23 13:30:34 UTC ]
While we don’t know what the state of the our pandemic society will be come September, we can at least be sure that we’ll all be getting a little Joy Williams, as a treat. Specifically, a new novel—her fifth, and her first since 2000’s The Quick and the Dead, which was a runner-up for the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-03 21:01:23 UTC ]
Ishiguro’s first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017 is a delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-02 16:46:21 UTC ]
The Books of Jacob, praised by the Nobel prize judges and winner of Poland’s prestigious Nike award, will be published in the UK in NovemberThe magnum opus of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk – a novel that has taken seven years to translate and has brought its author death threats in her native... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-26 15:00:18 UTC ]
Faber is to publish Lucy Caldwell's first novel in nearly a decade, These Days. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-23 01:30:10 UTC ]
READING PATRICIA LOCKWOOD’S first novel feels a lot like having your brain poisoned by the internet — or at least like having that particular contemporary condition understood. No One Is Talking About This is a searing entry into the rapidly emerging pantheon of digital culture literature, told... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-16 16:00:53 UTC ]
The Seventy-Five Pages, out next month, contains germinal versions of episodes developed in In Search of Lost Time and opens ‘the primitive Proustian crypt’For everyone who decided to bite the madeleine and read all 3,000-odd pages of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time during lockdown,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-16 15:21:36 UTC ]