1. Darkly cosy, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History draws you into another world – a small university campus in snowy Vermont – and holds you in its grip from the narrator’s first killer line. Timeless yet old-fashioned, literary yet entertaining, still a dazzling read. 2. Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan is set in…

Author Hwang Bo-Reum. I finished Welcome to Hyunam-Dong Bookshop the day I visited The Bookshop Inc at Lodhi Road in Delhi. Before my visit, I had been wondering why so many writers like to situate their books inside bookshops. From Calvino to Yagisawa, books where a bookshop plays an important role could be a genre…

The Yomiuri ShimbunNatsuki Ikezawa, left, winner of the Tsubouchi Shoyo Award, and Gregory Khezrnejat, who received an honorable mention, pose for a photo at Waseda University in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 29. By Chihiro Kosugi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer 17:00 JST, November 26, 2023 Waseda University announced that this year’s Tsubouchi Shoyo Award went…

Sunday, November 26, 2023 “Cambridge Woman Authors” panelists at the Cambridge Main Library on Nov. 6 were, from left Laura Zigman, Gish Jen, Virginia Pye and Claire Messud. (Photo: Virginia Pye) Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Hannah Adams, Margaret Fuller and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins connected across the centuries Nov. 6 with Virginia Pye, Laura Zigman, Gish Jen…

The Economist Nov 26, 2023 11:00 AM IST Share Via Copy Link Former spooks make especially strong authors “KIM” published in 1901, may be the first spy novel. Rudyard Kipling recounts the adventures of an orphan who becomes a player in the Great Game, Britain’s competition with Russia in the 19th century for influence in…

SINGAPORE – Intercultural and transnational panels on literature and identity yielded some of the richest conversations of the Singapore Writers Festival on Nov 25, the penultimate day of the 10-day affair. A panel in English comprising writers from the Malay, Tamil and Chinese communities offered three different frameworks – Nusantara, Thinai and Nanyang respectively –…

Srinath Perur. | Sayari Debnath Srinath Perur, with his translations of Vivek Shanbhag’s novels Sakina’s Kiss and Ghachar Ghochar, has become almost synonymous with the author for English-language readers. After tasting immense success with Ghachar Ghochar – several international awards nominations, glowing reviews in various national and global publications, and further translations into Indian and…

<!– Hide Mobile side –> NILES, Mich. – The Battle over Books continues as Brandywine Community Schools discussed details on what deems a book as “violent.”  In October, the discussion began.  Secretary Angela Seastrom proposed at last month’s meeting that violence in literature needs to be defined.  This meeting, a definition categorizing violence in books…