What do three women accused during the Salem witch trials have in common with a captain’s widow who single-handedly held off a mutiny in the late 19th century? They’re all members of author Katherine Howe’s family tree. Howe’s latest novel “A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself” reimagines her seafaring…

Pink, the singer, has taken a stand against the increasing withdrawal of books from American public schools by distributing some to her fans while in Florida. The singer announced on Instagram that she would be distributing books banned from school libraries to her fans during her concerts in Miami and Sunrise, Florida. She expressed her…

Perez added, “…I come from Guam, which is a U.S. territory, one of the last remaining colonies in the world and when I was growing up in kind of a colonial American school system, I was never taught my own people’s literature. We were always taught American literature. So when I started writing, my mission was…

We can feel a little bit cut off on our island, a bit parochial and caught up in our own local dramas, so for a bit of international perspective on the literature scene, ArtsHub UK reached out to US-based author, critic and host of the chart-topping and Signal award-winning podcast Missing Pages, Bethanne Patrick, for…

The Dingle Literature Festival went off smoothly this weekend, with entertaining interviews, innovative venues, and informative readings. Plenty to entertain booklovers, both local and residential. Why then was your correspondent staking out a small cheese shop on Grey’s Lane in the town last Saturday afternoon? Blame the surprise news that broke late on Friday evening.…

President John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were both killed in Dallas on the same weekend in November 1963. They were men from different  walks of life, and ended up on opposite sides of a murder. But they had things in common. Both were also given to hiding parts of themselves, and engaged in…

A book on the rivers of India was recently honoured with a well-known literary award in West Bengal. Nadijibir Notebook (‘notebook on rivers’) a book in Bengali by writer and river scientist Supratim Karmakar, published in 2022, was honoured with the Namita Chattopadhyay Sahitya Samman 2023 on November 18 at the Bangla Akademi in Kolkata.  The book…

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Servants of Knowledge and Public Resource, voluntary initiatives towards digitisation of rare books and other media, are set to take up digital archiving of some of the publications of Motilal Banarsidass, a 120-year-old Delhi-based publisher. Motilal Banarsidass recently arrived at an agreement with Public Resource and Servants of Knowledge to create a free and open…