by: Mohd Ziyaullah Khan Come 23rd April and we have the special day for book lovers – World Book Day. The day was established by UNESCO in 1995 to globally celebrate books and reading. Today, we see that World Book Day is being observed in over 100 countries worldwide, including India, especially among the literary…

The art world can be a space of wonder, beauty, bravery, connection and community. As an art critic and art historian, I’ve spent the past decade swimming in these waters. But it can also feel like a badly written joke: shaped by the 1%, populated by the shrinking middle classes, picketed by anarchists and run…

For as long as we can remember (and excuse this lofty introduction), genre has served the dual purpose of business and pleasure. When you hear sci-fi, you often think of laser guns, riotous botanical monsters, or even the slowly scrolling words that begin “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.” But consider…

Very few literary prizes have the power to significantly move the needle in terms of securing a larger readership for the books they champion. One of those is the Women’s prize for fiction, and therefore it has been a great responsibility and honour for me and my fellow judges – Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Laura Dockrill, Indira…

Turning novels into TV shows is a practice as old as the visual medium itself. But it is relatively rare for filmmakers to tackle award-winning or short-listed works of literature, which makes Max’s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 novel “The Sympathizer” a gamble. As opposed to more plot-driven genre writing, prestigious literature depends on…

‘Books really start conversations:’ Independent bookstore in Huntsville speaks about importance of literature on World Book Day Skip to content

 | Updated: Apr 23, 2024, 02:02 PM IST As the world celebrates books and what they have brought to our lives as a race, with fiction and non-fiction fuelling creative imagination in our minds, these are some of the most successful and iconic bestleiing books that are now ready to be heard as audiobooks on Audible.…

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. (JTA) — Growing up Orthodox Jewish in the suburbs of New York City, Dahlia Adler read books that showed a life vastly different from her own. “I…

Song: “The Tortured Poets Department” and “loml” Lyric: “You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith” and “We embroidered the memories of the time I was away / Stitching, ‘We were just kids, babe‘” Patti Smith gets not one, but two references on TTPD—one linking her with Dylan Thomas, and another to her memoir Just…

I left New York in 2009 for grad school, and by the time I returned—just a few years later—the city had been transformed. Walking to the subway, on the sidewalks and escalators, almost everyone carried a pet screen. Sometimes people banged into things or ran into each other, too absorbed in the digital world to…