India Knight is publishing an homage to her favourite novel, The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, with Fig Tree next year. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Best Historical Fiction of the Century, New YA out this week, Neurodivergent romance novels, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-09-09 16:08:01 UTC ]
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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 at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-08-23 13:58:16 UTC ]
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A work of literary fiction with a mystery at its center that explores family, friendship, and loss. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-07-19 16:15:00 UTC ]
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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 at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-07-16 08:56:08 UTC ]
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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 at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-07-22 17:00:17 UTC ]
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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 at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-05-08 14:30:42 UTC ]
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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 at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-05-05 14:30:48 UTC ]
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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 at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-24 11:30:01 UTC ]
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The events of 2000, including the disputed election and the 9/11 hijackers' preparations, "broke" America, Andrew Rice argues. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-03-18 12:00:11 UTC ]
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Fig Tree has scooped the "powerful and beautifully humane" debut novel by Mo Siewcharran Prize-winner Santanu Bhattacharya. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-05 14:00:25 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House has dominated the Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners, with two Viking authors among the victors—Caleb Azumah Nelson and John Preston—along with Fig Tree's Claire Fuller and Manjeet Mann, with only Bloodaxe Books' Hannah Lowe preventing a clean sweep. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-04 12:23:06 UTC ]
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Review of "There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century" by Fiona Hill Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-01 14:45:07 UTC ]
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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 at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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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 at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-19 10:07:42 UTC ]
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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 at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 23:06:31 UTC ]
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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 at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-04 18:00:58 UTC ]
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Lit Lists Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved from bookstores to Zoom. Writers and... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-12-14 20:55:17 UTC ]
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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 at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-11-30 06:00:50 UTC ]
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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 at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 17:04:53 UTC ]
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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 at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-23 11:12:41 UTC ]
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