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This is where you can find English literature at Malaga’s massive book fair
Jennie Rhodes Malaga Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 18:28 Copiar enlace WhatsApp Facebook X LinkedIn Telegram Malaga city’s book fair, or ‘Feria del Libro’ is on every day this week until Sunday 5 May, running along the city’s Paseo del Parque. Among the 54 stalls the diverse literary offering ranges from the University of Malaga to…
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Haitian culture and literature celebrated at book festival
The free, 10th annual Little Haiti Book Festival (LHBF), presented by Sosyete Koukouy and Miami Book Fair this Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., is a one-stop shop for all things Haitian culture. Following this year’s “Ansanm,” or together, theme and coinciding with Haitian Heritage Month, the festival will promote unity and focus on…
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15 Indie Press Books to Read This Spring
As we move out of winter and into spring, the days are becoming longer, but a chill still lingers in the air. In this reading list, monsters are made real, queer love blooms in spite of oppression, and friendships are both nourished and torn apart. Spanning Cameroon to Scotland, these indie authors reinvent the coming…
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Jessica Zhan Mei Yu on Loving Literature That Hates You
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s smartly interior debut novel But the Girl appears to follow the path of a bildungsroman. Our protagonist, simply named Girl, is on a flight out of Australia for an artist’s residency in the lush Scottish countryside. She is leaving behind her tight-knit Malaysian family and her PhD dissertation on Sylvia Plath,…
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9 Books About Multiverses
In April of 1956, as a PhD student in the physics department at Princeton, Hugh Everett III finished writing Wave Mechanics Without Probability. The paper received little attention at the time (due perhaps to its extremely boring title); later, however, it would gain acclaim as the foundational text for the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics.…
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Crime Novels with a Sense of Place and Manners
Write what you know, they say. A tall order if you’re writing about a serial killer. Most serial killers don’t take the time to sit down and write crime fiction—harder to plot a crime than simply do it, I would think, particularly once you’ve figured it out and are on a roll—but there’s a thought:…
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Westland Books announces the release of Against Storytelling, edited by Amit Chaudhuri – The third book under Westland and Ashoka University’s Literary Activism Imprint
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Dalit literature: Decoding voices of resistance and despair | The Hindu On Books podcast
Celebrated as the Dalit History Month, April is the time to reflect upon Dalit literature. There are many books in multiple Indian languages that raise issues related to caste and casteist patriarchy, oppression of the marginalised communities and their quest for equality. The Dalit history month was started in India in 2015 by a group…
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These Gifts Will Delight Every Book Lover You Know
1 Best Journal for Book Lovers Oprah Daily Oprah’s “The Life You Want” Book Lover’s Journal 1 Best Journal for Book Lovers Oprah Daily Oprah’s “The Life You Want” Book Lover’s Journal Now 65% OffCredit: Gregor Halenda One of Oprah Daily’s newest guided journals is perfect for any book lover—it literally says so in the…
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40 Must-Read Books for 6th Graders
While there are always classic tried-and-true books for 6th graders we share with students, I’m always on the lookout for books that could become new classics. It’s not easy to find the time to go through everything that’s been published in the last few years, however, so we’ve saved you some time with this list.…