The long moral shadows cast by South Africa's colonial history

A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state. Continue reading at 'The Conversation'

[ The Conversation | 2019-12-08 07:14:51 UTC ]
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Long-Running California Newspaper Ends Print Publication After 161 Years

The Martinez News-Gazette, which began in 1853 and once counted Mark Twain as one of its writers, bade farewell to readers on Sunday: "GOODBYE." Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2019-12-30 07:57:06 UTC ]
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Scholars have dismissed debutante balls, but ‘The Season’ digs in to the strange, fascinating history

Kristen Richardson blends historical research and reportage with personal anecdotes. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-22 19:55:17 UTC ]
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The Long Tail of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’

Delia Owens’s debut novel has sold more than four million copies — an astonishing trajectory for any new writer, much less for a 70-year-old wildlife scientist. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2019-12-21 10:00:08 UTC ]
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Unearthing London’s history from a muddy riverbank

Mudlarker Lara Maiklem discovers everyday items that tell intimate stories of the city. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-19 21:46:42 UTC ]
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Bagchi wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Amitabha Bagchi has won the $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature with his novel Half the Night is Gone (Juggernaut). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-16 18:21:54 UTC ]
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From brutal surgeries to pink ribbons: A history of breast cancer

Survivor and journalist Kate Pickert chronicles the medical and cultural history of the disease. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-13 06:55:53 UTC ]
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The History Press to launch new imprint in 2020

​The History Press will launch a new publishing imprint in 2020, with a list focused on "books that spark".  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-12 14:01:30 UTC ]
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‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s new novel explores family ties and the complications of race. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-12-10 17:25:19 UTC ]
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The glorious history of movie musicals

Film historian Jeanine Basinger brings zeal to her decades-spanning survey “The Movie Musical!” Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-27 15:55:30 UTC ]
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Julia Lovell wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

British author and translator of Chinese literature Julia Lovell has won the 2019 Cundill History Prize.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-14 22:58:18 UTC ]
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Felton’s ‘painfully funny history of Britain’ optioned for TV

Open Mike Productions, the production company behind “Live at the Apollo” and “The Last Leg”, has optioned journalist James Felton’s 52 Times Britain Was A Bellend (Sphere) for a comedy TV series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 05:26:52 UTC ]
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The longlist for this year’s €100,000 International DUBLIN Literary Award is 156 books long.

The longlist for the 2020 International DUBLIN Literary Award was announced today, and it is indeed long—156 books long, to be precise. The prize is sponsored by the Dublin City Council, and the longlist is comprised of nominations from public libraries around the world. Last year’s winner,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-11 17:21:15 UTC ]
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Brad Meltzer gets kids to care about history in PBS’s ‘Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum’

The best-selling author of thrillers for adults and the ‘Ordinary People’ series for children translates his books to a new animated series. Little adventurers and history buffs will soon get the chance to travel back in time and meet some of the world’s most inspiring historical figures⁠—when... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2019-11-11 08:00:28 UTC ]
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Sin, joy and forgiveness on a long walk to Rome

Over his 10-week journey, Timothy Egan contemplates the future of the Catholic Church. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-08 13:52:16 UTC ]
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DSC Prize for South Asian Literature shortlist revealed

​Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, as the award returns for its ninth year.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-07 19:11:34 UTC ]
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The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge

The author Karl Ove Knausgaard writes on the slowness of literature, adapted from a speech delivered at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. Continue reading at New Yorker

[ New Yorker | 2019-11-06 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Obituary: Ernest J. Gaines, Novelist of the Black South, Dies at 86

Ernest J. Gaines, award-winning author of the acclaimed novel 'The Autobiography of Jane Pittman,' and a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant recipient, died of a heart attack at his home in Oscar, La. He was 86. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonty Claypole on the BBC's year-long celebration of books

Later today, an expert panel of leading British writers, curators and critics enlisted by the BBC are revealing 100 genre-busting reads as part of an ambitious Novels That Shaped Our World season... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-04 20:59:29 UTC ]
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Why Do Literary Agents Take So Long to Respond to Submissions?

Why do literary agents take so long to respond to submissions from writers? Is it personal? Are there things writers can do to speed up the process? Find the answers here. The post Why Do Literary Agents Take So Long to Respond to Submissions? by Robert Lee Brewer appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading at Writer's Digest

[ Writer's Digest | 2019-11-04 18:50:46 UTC ]
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