Huxley & Hiro Booksellers has brought a bookshop back to Wilmington’s Market Street following the closure of Ninth Street Book Shop. | PHOTO COURTESY OF HUXLEY & HIRO / CLAIRE VAN DEN BROEK WILMINGTON – Huxley & Hiro Booksellers opened Friday, bringing a bookstore back to the city’s Market Street corridor for the first time…

Taipei, Oct. 31 (CNA) The National Museum of Taiwan Literature revealed the winners of the Taiwan Literature Awards (TLA) for Books on Monday, with the top prize going to “The Book of Wreckage” (殘骸書) by Chen Lieh (陳列). Chen’s prose book was awarded the 2023 TLA Annual Golden Grand Laurel Award along with NT$1 million…

Here are the finalists for the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction. The Governor General’s Literary Awards are one of Canada’s oldest and most prestigious literary prizes.  The prizes, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, are awarded in seven English-language categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people’s literature — text, young people’s literature — illustration, drama and French-to-English translation. Seven French-language awards are also given out in the same…

In a 2012 speech, literary scholar Donald Keene displayed his passion for Japanese classics like The Tale of Genji, and called for teaching in Japanese schools to shift from an excessive focus on grammar to allowing students to read the classics in easy-to-understand modern translations. Japanese Classics Day celebrates the country’s classic literature on November…

Photo: VCG A book fair, featuring old books related to Beijing’s Central Axis, was held in the Chinese capital recently, gathering tens of thousands of old books and a wide array of cultural products and drawing book enthusiasts to explore and make purchases. Ten stores, including the Liulichang branch of the China Bookstore, showcased various…

William Faulkner. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Acclaimed authors  – from literary giants to local writers – have called the University of Mississippi home. The influence of these writers is tangible on campus and in Oxford.    One of the most lauded writers connected to UM and the state needs no introduction. William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains…

Mercer students sporting ancient Greek costumes and shields gathered in Newton Chapel on Oct. 13 to participate in the ninth annual Great Books Games.  The all-evening event featured engaging skits, battles of intellect and the presentation of team banners that related to the early culture studied in the Great Books Program (GBK) as depicted in…

Prof. W. J. T. Mitchell may be the only living iconologist on the planet. He draws on ideas from ancient and modern mythology that treat pictures as living things. As a historian of cultural images, Mitchell studies the relationship between words and images, cultivating visual and verbal literacy. For his immense scholarly work in iconology…

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View…

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View…