By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a poet, playwright, andfeminist, who enjoyed considerable success during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. As A. Mary Murphy notes in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, Millay’s poetry books sold in the sorts of […] Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'
[ Interesting Literature | 2023-03-09 18:00:15 UTC ]
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Robert Graves (1895-1985) is now probably best-remembered for two prose works: his 1929 memoir Goodbye to All That, about his experience fighting in the First World War, and his 1934 novel I, Claudius, set in ancient Rome. But Graves was also a highly influential poet – and theorist of poetry […] Continue reading at Interesting Literature
[ Interesting Literature | 2021-11-24 15:00:55 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's 10 recommended books for May include fiction from Emma Cline, R. F. Kuang and Abraham Verghese as well as a giant history of everything. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-04-29 13:00:28 UTC ]
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From Kipling to Le Carré, Patrick Worrall ('The Partisan') recommends 10 essential spy thrillers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
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This month, we’ve got new Tatsuya Endo and Hiromu Arakawa series, a quirky comedy about a boy who becomes a cat, and much more! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-04-11 10:30:00 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's 10 recommended books for April involve tales of mutiny, poison and more, including work by David Grann, Nicole Chung and Don Winslow. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-03-31 13:00:41 UTC ]
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Shirley Jackson (1916-65) wrote six novels and around two hundred short stories during her brief career. Probably best-known for her novel The Haunting of Hill House and her oft-anthologised short story ‘The Lottery’, Jackson was a writer with a... Continue reading at Interesting Literature
[ Interesting Literature | 2023-03-25 18:00:23 UTC ]
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) In a short life beset by ill health, the American writer Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960). But it is for her short stories, many of which were collected in just two volumes, that […] Continue reading at Interesting Literature
[ Interesting Literature | 2023-03-14 18:00:54 UTC ]
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Tales of foraging and magic, cults and deeply embedded social ills are among our top March picks, including new work from Mona Simpson and Victor LaValle. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-02-28 17:06:03 UTC ]
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Reviews editor David Adams recommends 10 excellent works of Black history recently starred by PW. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's February picks include new work from Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith, plus fresh insights into friendship, Silicon Valley and wolves. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-31 14:18:02 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's picks for January 2023 include an Indian gangster tale, a dystopian epic and musings from Amy Sherald and Mario Vargas Llosa. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-12-29 17:31:23 UTC ]
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The short stories of the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904) are important precursors to twentieth-century modernism, and can be viewed as forerunners to the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and other high modernists. Where other nineteenth-century writers tended to... Continue reading at Interesting Literature
[ Interesting Literature | 2022-12-28 15:00:24 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's December standout books include a Gen X caper, a wild adventure tale and surprising new novels from Jane Smiley and Cormac McCarthy. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-12-01 18:52:48 UTC ]
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Ryan Lee Wong, author of the novel 'Whose Side Are You On,' recommends 10 novels that break the 'model minority' stereotype. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's November highlights include musings from Dylan, Tarantino and Jerry Saltz, the returns of Russell Banks and Katherine Dunn and more. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-10-28 14:02:44 UTC ]
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The best witch manga include something for everyone, whether you want gentle and cozy, dark and action-packed, or something in between, like Flying Witch by Chihiro Ishizuka. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2022-10-19 10:33:00 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's October highlights include the biographies of Bob Dylan and Samuel Adams, new fiction from John Irving and Celeste Ng and plenty more. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-29 13:00:19 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's September highlights include sequels from Elizabeth Strout and Andrew Sean Greer along with exciting debuts. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-02 14:00:54 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's August highlights include fiction from Mohsin Hamid and Marianne Wiggins, a sequel to "Dopesick" and a revisionist feminist history. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-07-29 13:00:01 UTC ]
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