A children’s book at the centre of a controversial decision by a Western Sydney council to remove same-sex parenting literature from libraries is part of a series designed to help children navigate the “difficult realities in today’s world”. Same-Sex Parents by Holly Duhig has been removed from libraries run by Cumberland City Council following a heated…

Vermont Book Awards keynote speaker Eva McKend and author Sandra Simonds, who won the evening’s prize in Creative Fiction for her book “Assia.” Photo by Jess Turner. Writers and readers from across the state gathered at the Vermont College of Fine Arts College Hall on the evening of May 4 to celebrate a shared passion:…

Out of sight, out of reach, out of mind.  That’s the goal for a growing cadre of activists who are attacking public libraries for providing LGBTQ+ literature and sex ed materials to people of all ages. Amid skyrocketing book bans in public school libraries, heightened rhetoric describing LGBTQ+ and sex education content as “obscene” or…

Photo-Illustration: Vulture Claire Messud’s best-known book, The Emperor’s Children, came out in 2006. It is the sort of best seller you don’t encounter as much these days, ponderous and churning with detail. Its characters are haughtily ambitious young people in early-aughts New York and the more successful adults they cling to, who have “vulpine” smiles…

A few years ago when Patti Smith played at a cultural festival in Denmark, she told the crowd that she was happy to be playing in the presence of one of her favourite authors. It was said she had only agreed to play the festival because the author, César Aira, would be in the audience.…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — To finish off National Literature Month, the Cultural Center of the Philippines has recommended some of the most notable and brilliant works by the country’s National Artists for Literature for Filipinos to read. Ranging from poems to short stories and novels, there is surely something to check out on this list, with…

Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2024: 10 Essential Books by Rabindranath Tagore, India’s Sole Nobel Laureate in Literature (Picture Credit – Instagram) Rabindranath Tagore, a polymath and a prolific writer, holds the distinction of being the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. His works include poetry, novels, plays, and essays that delve…

Montreal is a city as appealing for its beauty as for its shadows. Here, the novelist Mona Awad recommends books that are “both dreamy and uncompromising.” Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. Montreal is an island unto itself. An architect’s paradise. A foodie’s dream, where a pastry…

I thought it would be easy to compile a list of books where women live alone. And it was, but what is considerably less easy it to think about books where women live alone and don’t fall into, or emerge from, a completely deranged state. I asked friends, and one replied, “the first thing that…