All wars have their own brutal logic, but only a few manage to make an entire country disappear. The former Yugoslavia was still a one-party socialist country under General Tito when I came to Macedonia from Australia in the 1980s to learn Balkan and Romany folk music. When I returned two decades later, this time…

Tomás NevinsonJavier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa (Hamish Hamilton)“I was brought up in the old-fashioned way, and could never have dreamed that one day I would be ordered to kill a woman.” Ah, how we will miss the late Javier Marías and his unique genre of slow-motion page-turners, blending thrillery plots with long, equivocating…

The second edition of Tamil Book Festival organised by the Karnataka Tamil Journalists Association, which was inaugurated on December 1, is happening at the Institution of Engineers campus, Dr Ambedkar Veedhi in Bengaluru. It concludes on December 10. On Friday, December 8, Padma Shri awardee and former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist Mylswamy Annadurai…

When the Nobel Prize-winning author Jon Fosse was 7 years old, he had an accident that would shape his writing life. At home one day on his family’s small farm in Strandebarm, a village amid Norway’s western fjords, Fosse was carrying a bottle of fruit juice when he slipped on ice in the yard. As…

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Left to right: Authors and artists gathered to celebrate the launch of the Books & Books Literary Foundation including Susie Horgan, Lolo Reskin, Amanda Keeley, Kimberly Standiford, Richard Blanco, Books & Books’ Owner and Founder Mitchell Kaplan, Mirta Ojito, Ana Menendez, Ruth Behar, Chantel Acevedo, Dave Barry and Josh Kaplan. Photo by Johnny Louis.  Surrounded…

The organisers of the High School Prize for Literature (HSPL) have launched the debut novel of one of its finalists and students of Bodija International College (BIC) in Ibadan, Ameenah Lateef, titled ‘In Search of Freedom’. Ameenah’s book was recently launched in her school amid her family, friends, teachers, school management, and the HSPL organisers.…

There’s no denying that this year has been an embarrassment of riches when it comes to truly extraordinary, life-changing novels. From books that quietly interrogate the nuances of life among the elite, to stunning panoramic works that imagine a more physically and spatially flexible world, the authors on this list took a classic literary form…

There’s no denying that this year has been an embarrassment of riches when it comes to truly extraordinary, life-changing novels. From books that quietly interrogate the nuances of life among the elite, to stunning panoramic works that imagine a more physically and spatially flexible world, the authors on this list took a classic literary form…

Carina Pereira, born in ‘87, in Portugal. Moved to Belgium in 2011, and to Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2019. Avid reader, changing interests as the mods strikes. Whiles away the time by improvising stand-up routines she’ll never get to perform. Books are a life-long affair, audiobooks a life-changing discovery of adulthood. Selling books by day,…