Sanjoy K Roy has emerged as a connoisseur of Indian literature and a major figure in the festival circuit as the organizer of iconic Jaipur Literature Festival. An alumnus of St Stephens College, Roy was in the advertising world before immersing himself into the world of art and lit-fests. With these festivals comes the inevitable…

With March Madness and the Super Bowl recently crowning champions and the Grammys and Oscars awarding music and movies, it’s finally time for the literary world to have its own big moment in the sun. And that can only mean one thing: It’s Pulitzer time! While there are many book awards that highlight some of…

The most compelling horror novels are those that resent the very rules of their own genre. These books throw their elbows around and demand more space, pushing against the parameters, which quickly become elastic, until the novels defy easy categorization. To call them horror, then, is a disservice, but so would calling them “cross-genre.” They…

RuPaul Charles An LGBTQIA+ community icon and native Californian, RuPaul Charles is set to grace the stage and discuss his new autobiography at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.  Charles has seen immense success as the host and executive producer of the reality competition television series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — a series that has…

Visitors browse through books displayed in the book exhibition, “Springing to Life,” at the Starfield Library at Coex, southern Seoul. (LTI Korea) The Literature Translation Institute of Korea is currently hosting a book exhibition titled “Springing to Life,” focusing on internationally acclaimed works of Korean literature, from Thursday to May 12 at the Starfield Library…

Writer and poet R. Raj Rao’s latest novel Mahmud and Ayaz (Speaking Tiger) bears his signature style. Unsettling and unapologetic, Rao models the relationship between a young Muslim man and his Hindu domestic help, whom he helps convert to Islam, after the love affair between Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni and his Turkish slave-cum-lover Ayaz. In this interview, the author…

The Nigeria Prize for Literature, sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG), has received 163) entries for the 2024 edition. This was revealed today at a ceremony in Lagos to hand over the entries to judges for the commencement of the adjudication process. NLNG, represented by its General Manager for External Relations and Sustainable Development, Mr…

Literature and the New Culture Wars: Triggers, Cancel Culture, and the Teacher’s Dilemma Deborah A. Appleman Published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2022 192pp / $19.95 / 978-1324019183 After my Children’s Literature class has read their first book of the semester, I often ask them whether they think that book is appropriate for…

Thirty-one authors and translators have withdrawn their work from consideration for or declined PEN America’s 2024 literary awards over the organisation’s “failure to protect” Palestinian writers in Gaza. Nine out of 10 longlistees for the PEN/Jean Stein book award, worth $75,000 (£60,143), have withdrawn their books. Christina Sharpe, Catherine Lacey and Joseph Earl Thomas are…