Category: Literature and Books

  • UGC NET English Books 2024: Best Booklist, Study Material, Authors

    UGC NET English Books 2024: Best Booklist, Study Material, Authors

    UGC NET English Books: While preparing for UGC NET English paper, candidates should choose the books very carefully, as it are very essential for them. Here, we have listed the best UGC NET English books that are recommended by experts for the preparation of the UGC English syllabus. UGC NET English Books 2024 UGC NET English…

  • 10 Classic Books and Their Modern Retellings

    10 Classic Books and Their Modern Retellings

    10 Classic Books and Their Modern Retellings (Picture Credit – Instagram) Classic literature has long been a source of inspiration for contemporary authors, leading to an array of modern retellings that reimagine traditional narratives through a contemporary lens. These retellings offer fresh perspectives and new cultural contexts, making old stories accessible and relatable to today’s…

  • 7 Books About Black People Who Pass as White

    7 Books About Black People Who Pass as White

    In the Summer of 2017, I went to see the European premiere of the Braden Jacobs-Jenkins play An Octoroon. Based on the 1859 melodrama by the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault, it was staged at the Orange Tree Theatre in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. A truly bombastic production that lampooned the tropes of…

  • Al Hudhud Publishing And Distribution And Emirates Literature Foundation Partner To Promote Reading For Pleasure In Uae Schools

    Al Hudhud Publishing And Distribution And Emirates Literature Foundation Partner To Promote Reading For Pleasure In Uae Schools

    (MENAFN- Dubai PR Network) Al Hudhud Publishing And Distribution And Emirates Literature Foundation Partner To Promote Reading For Pleasure In Uae Schools Dubai, UAE, 10 May 2024: The Emirates Literature Foundation today announced a new partnership with Al Hudhud Publishing and Distribution to promote and strengthen the habit of reading for pleasure among students across…

  • The 5 best romance novels of spring 2024

    The 5 best romance novels of spring 2024

    Siblings are our first best friends — and sometimes our first rivals. The romance novels of spring 2024 bring sibling bonds to their forefront. Whether it’s a heroine who is extremely protective of her sibling, two protagonists haunted by the death of a sibling, or the support system that comes from sisterhood, each of the…

  • The 5 best romance novels of spring 2024

    The 5 best romance novels of spring 2024

    Siblings are our first best friends — and sometimes our first rivals. The romance novels of spring 2024 bring sibling bonds to their forefront. Whether it’s a heroine who is extremely protective of her sibling, two protagonists haunted by the death of a sibling, or the support system that comes from sisterhood, each of the…

  • SM’s Book Nook strengthens Filipinos’ love for literature in celebration of National Literature Month

    SM’s Book Nook strengthens Filipinos’ love for literature in celebration of National Literature Month

    In celebration of National Literature Month this April, Book Nook, a community and learning hub at SM Supermalls prepared a series of engaging events designed for book lovers of all ages, as a way to showcase SM’s unwavering support for literature. To commemorate International Children’s Book Day, students were invited to participate in a book…

  • 8 Novels Inspired by Asian Mythology

    8 Novels Inspired by Asian Mythology

    My mother tells me stories of a woman on the moon. When she first heard the story, she was a little girl in China, sleeping at her aunt’s house beside the river, banana trees thrashing with night storms. When I first heard the story, I was in my parents’ bedroom in the American midwest, the…

  • Eight of the Greatest Campus Novels Ever Written

    Eight of the Greatest Campus Novels Ever Written

    To step into a campus novel, like stepping onto a college campus, is to enter a miniature world. It’s a place with a particular geography, made of dorm rooms and classrooms, student centers and dining halls. Time is both fixed and in motion: for students, it’s always moving toward an endpoint, while for professors, time…

  • Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?

    Why Are So Many Mexican Novels Set in Cantinas?

    Some decades ago, when Mexico was still ruled by an authoritarian regime, one or another president remarked that the only two establishments one could be sure to find in every town in the country, no matter how small or remote, were a Catholic parish and an outpost of the state-owned store that sold subsidized milk.…