SAN ANTONIO – The Southside Book Fair is poised to return triumphantly for the third year! The event on March 24 promises wonderful literature, family fun, author panels, and meet and greets showcasing some of the best authors from San Antonio’s South Side. The fair has quickly established itself as a tradition for families and…

The International Booker Prize team points to a quarter of its 2024 longlist as evidence of a ‘second Latin American boom’ in literature. Image: Booker Prize Foundation By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Stunning Evocations of Place and Time’ This afternoon here in London (March 11), the Booker Prize Foundation has released its longlist for the…

The process of writing, when it’s going well, feels like psychic channeling. You start typing and who knows what’s going to pour out or where it’s coming from? I’ve always felt a little psychic, a little witch— writing things that end up coming true, sensing the truth of a situation before I consciously understand it.…

Profiles Percival Everett Can’t Say What His Novels Mean The author of “Erasure” is renowned for his satires of genre, identity, and America. But his great target may be language itself. By Maya Binyam March 11, 2024 Everett’s latest novel, “James,” is a retelling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” from the point of view…

This is the 20th year of Edinburgh becoming the first City of Literature, and it is evident that this has influenced books, authors and literature in Edinburgh over the two decades. One of the positive impacts is the many festivals with a literary flavour which have grown to populate what’s on in the city during…

Kairos, a small, solid-fuel rocket made by Japan’s Space One, exploded just seconds into its inaugural launch on Wednesday as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit. The setback for Space One and the rocket industry in Japan comes as the government and investors ramp up support…

“You know they’re spending money when there’s carpet,” Rich Johnston, the founder of the British comics news site Bleeding Cool, says, gesturing at the rich royal blue carpeting lining the Grand Hall of Olympia London. He’s been at the fair for more than 15 years running, and in the years “when there’s no carpet,” he…

As the middle grade graphic novel category has grown in recent years, the number of graphic adaptations of middle grade books has exploded. That makes sense: graphic adaptations bring new readers to older stories and expand the audience for newer ones. In the early days of the medium, they also helped graphic novels gain acceptance…

A chilly marriage; a catatonic protagonist. She wanted to be let alone, with a book.Ruth Harriet Louise/John Kobal Foundation, via Getty Images Dear readers, Recently, a lovely and well-meaning friend texted me one of those trending articles that make you want to trade your smartphone for an abacus and never speak of the internet again.…

Considering how often the Bible is characterized as a great work of literature, it is rarely read like one. Few would suggest a piecemeal approach to Crime and Punishment, jumping from chapter to chapter with little regard to the whole, but a book like Genesis is often studied only as a collection of isolated episodes.…