Looking to extend your love for K-dramas? There’s a treasure trove of Korean romance novels available in English translations. While some are based on your favourite K-dramas, others offer fresh and emotionally charged narratives that will make your heart flutter. We’ve compiled a list of ten such timeless novels that every K-drama lover should read.…

This spring, we’re celebrating the return of verdancy and color: the trees covered with dots of pink and white blossoms, and a field of tulips and daffodils awakening from dormancy. Along with re-emergence of blue skies and green grass, it’s been a bountiful season for books. To find out which new and forthcoming releases we…

Calcutta, 1950s. What do you remember of the city? Wide boulevards, crisscrossing tramlines, imposing white facades, an echo of the British empire? A close approximation but think again. Do you remember it? The vagrants sleeping under the shade of trees. Freedom fighter Hariram Goenka’s statue in Curzon Park, its gaze affixed at Raj Bhavan. The…

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Thu 11 April 2024 17:12, UK “Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.” – Stephen King The horror genre may not ever be as commercial again as it was in the 1980s, when…

Literature and the love for literature spans thousands of years and across every corner of the globe. Flagstaff is not exempt from that. The Northern Arizona Book Festival is one such place where authors, publishing presses, readers, creatives and artists can share their mutual love. From poetry to short stories, zines, chapter books, novellas and…

I suspect many writers spend hours and hours at their local library and, if they’re anything like me, they can often feel like they’re swallowed up in a grandiose, if not downright mythological reservoir of knowledge. I remember living in Los Angeles, going to the Los Angeles Public Library, sitting at long tables and reading…

George Makari, director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy and the Arts at Weill Cornell, and author of Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia hosts an ongoing series of podcasts “on the imagination.” Here, he speaks with the innovative, award-winning writer Geoff Dyer on opportunities and perils of non-genre writing.…

April 10, 2024, 4:37pm Less than a month out from the 20th incarnation of its flagship World Voices Festival, the protests against PEN America’s response to the war on Gaza are continuing to mount. In just the last few days, several authors have withdrawn their books from PEN awards consideration; esteemed translator Esther Allen, who…

The group Open Books is giving what it calls “LGBTQ+ affirming literature” to public schools, including every elementary campus in the LAUSD. Rory Kennedy talks about “Synanon Fix,” a four-part documentary series on HBO about the drug rehab center that turned into a cult. KCRW also asks about her presidential candidate brother. California lawmakers revealed…