For lovers of vintage books and periodicals, “The Art of the Literary Poster” celebrates a vibrant niche in late-19th-century advertising. Trends come and go; one era’s tulip fever is another’s Beanie Baby craze. The vogue for literary posters burned briefly, beginning in 1893 and lasting not much more than a decade. But the body of…

Carol Atherton is shattered. Her classroom may have emptied for the day, but the final push before A-levels and GCSE exams has sent her into “marking overdrive”. Head of English at a secondary school in Lincolnshire, she has been teaching for almost 30 years and has covered largely the same set texts her entire career, but…

Kashmir’s Necropolis is an interdisciplinary book about the litera­ture, film, and visual texts that have emerged out from and outside of Kashmir roughly in the last two decades. The book highlights a conflictual space that exists between two postcolonial nations and the curious problematique in defining this space in terms of a “postcolonial conflict zone”…

WORDS Jasmine Pirovic    PUBLISHED Fri, 5 Apr 2024 – 1:50 pm Too often we find ourselves reaching outward across seas for culture – music, art, books and film – before we’ve even considered the works here, in Australia. And while, we’ll never discourage you from broadening your horizons with perspectives outside your own, when searching for your…

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Where are all the books about work? That question lands in our inbox from time to time, and no wonder: In terms of hours and paychecks and the sense of identity they impart, jobs are a consuming part of our lives that authors do…

April 4, 2024, 11:51am Fellow travelers and cinephiles—look sharp. Solidarity may really be upon us. Word on the street is that Francis Ford Coppola’s much-anticipated epic, Megalopolis, about an idealistic architect with utopian dreams for New York City, is inspired by not just one but three tentpoles of new left theory.  The books in question…

What could possibly be more “Hudson Valley” than drifting through row after row of literary goodness in a local bookstore? While there are indeed more convenient means of acquiring your next read, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as shopping local. Next time you’re in need of some intellectual stimulation, get your fix at one of…

Like many authors, I don’t write alongside a “day job” but rather a portfolio career. For over a decade a key strand of my work has focused on human rights non-fiction editing. During the U.K.’s covid lockdown, the femicide rate spiked even as my clients (frontline workers, activists and academics) struggled to get support for…

Segu Crossing the Mangrove Windward Heights I Tituba Black Witch Of Salem The Children of Segu Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat Heremakhonon Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Condé, who was renowned for epic books tackling the legacy of slavery and colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean, has died at the age of 90. Dany Laferrière, a Haitian-Canadian novelist…