In recent years, celebrity book clubs have gained immense popularity, offering readers a unique opportunity to explore diverse literary landscapes while also building on their love of their fave famous faces. Several literary-minded celebs have really thrown themselves into their clubs, conducting interviews and making themselves available to fans specifically to chat books.  If you’re…

Bethany Robertson, @loveless_designs In honor of Black History Month, we’re revisiting this story that was originally published in 2020, along with an updated directory of Black-owned bookstores by state. If you can’t make it to one of these 133 stores in person, you can support them online by shopping the from Black-owned stores on bookshop.org—where…

Melin Bapur is a new publisher on the market, and it’s incepted to sell books through a print-on-demand model. The publisher aims to publish a diverse range of books with a primary focus on nurturing classic Welsh literature. The publisher will publish new editions of Welsh classics and make the literature available which has long…

Classic, contested books such as Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Fahrenheit 451 are being analyzed this semester by Ohio Northern University honors students. The course is focusing on how and why such works have been challenged or banned in the U.S. and England, their literary value, and how they reflect and influence civics and politics. “We will…

Dune is set far into the future, in an intergalactic feudal society where powerful noble houses fight for control over resources, armies, and planetary power. House Atreides is ordered to take control of Arrakis, a barren desert planet with a brutal climate. Arrakis is the only place to mine melange, a natural resource that produces…

Of all the lies contemporary society runs on, the fiction of the meritocracy may be the most insidious and inescapable. Even those cynical about its promises have no choice but to place their trust in its precepts. If you’re born with the odds stacked against you—whether because of your class, race, gender, or place of…

(This article forms a part of The Hindu on Books newsletter which brings you book reviews, reading recommendations, interviews with authors and more. Subscribe here.) Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The curtains came down on the Jaipur Literature Festival (February 1-5) on Monday with a debate on ‘Free Speech will…

Two South African literary festivals’ line-ups have been announced. Two South African literary festivals have announced the line-ups for their upcoming events.  The Time of the Writer festival takes place from 14 to 21 February at the Alliance Française in Durban. It is the 27th iteration of the festival. Following the successful launch of the…

Kudakwashe Rutendo is more than just a talented up-and-coming actress, she’s an avid reader and an advocate for all things Black creativity.  She is most notably known for her breakout role in the highly acclaimed feature film Backspot where she starred alongside Devery Jacobs. The film, which was produced by Elliott Page, made its world…

Since the very beginning of cinema, filmmakers have gone to great lengths to adapt famous literary work to the screen, in hopes of bringing the magic of the pages into life in a movie format. The amount of book-to-film adaptations is endless, from classic Shakespearean works to modern and fantasy tales, we have seen many…