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Best poetry books of 2023
For many poets in 2023, the climate crisis became the most urgent subject, with warnings to grab attention and, hopefully, stir action. Most notable of the many collections rooted in ecology is Jorie Graham’s To 2040 (Carcanet). It’s driven by a skittish yet visionary energy that makes an apocalyptic future feel cinematically thrilling, frightening and…
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This Climate Biodome Wants to Save Humanity. Men Need Not Apply.
In Gabrielle Korn’s debut novel, “Yours for the Taking,” a feminist cultural icon runs a lifesaving artificial habitat, but a secret, and controversial, agenda guides her project. YOURS FOR THE TAKING, by Gabrielle Korn “Yours for the Taking” follows an ensemble cast in a dystopian, near-future world where climate change and capitalism have rendered Earth…
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The best Canadian fiction of 2023
Here are the CBC Books picks for the top Canadian fiction of the year! Jamaluddin Aram is the author of Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday. (Abdullah Tawakoli) Set in 1990s Kabul, Afghanistan against the backdrop of civil war, Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday is a journey through the town of Wazirabad, which overflows…
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Shakespeare’s First Folio: State Library of NSW takes the Bard’s ‘radical’ 400-year-old book out of the vault
It is possibly one of the most valuable books in Australia, both for its cultural importance and the price copies fetch on the high-end auction market. Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, commonly referred to as the First Folio, marked its 400th anniversary this year, and the only copy of the work in Australia…
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Erica Jong on Jenny Offill, ‘Leaves of Grass ,’ and the Book That Everyone Should Read
Juliana Ukiomogbe December 5, 2023 at 9:00 AM Shelf Life: Erica JongILLUSTRATION BY YOUSRA ATTIA “Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console…
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Erica Jong on Jenny Offill, ‘Leaves of Grass,’ and the Book That Everyone Should Read
Welcome to Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column, in which authors share their most memorable reads. Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to console you, move you profoundly, or make you laugh, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series, who, like you (since you’re here), love books. Perhaps one of their favorite…
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On the many flavours of horror in children’s literature
What do we make of the mysterious thread that connects these stories not by genre, but by an imagination so wondrous they leave room for an underlying horror, and the many things that can mean? It’s not groundbreaking to claim that children’s literature is chock full of imaginative, yet very often very macabre, elements. “Who…
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W&L French Professor Publishes New Book
By Brian LaubscherDecember 5, 2023 Mohamed Kamara, professor of French and chair of the Romance Languages Department at Washington and Lee University, has published a new book that will hit shelves on Dec. 15. Titled “Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature: The School and the Invention of the Bourgeoisie,” the book analyzes the representation and…
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NEH Funded Street & Smith Digitization Project Completed (113,342 pages From 4,790 Dime Novels)
From Northern Illinois University: Northern Illinois University Libraries is pleased to announce the completion of the Street & Smith Project. First begun in 2020 with a grant of $338,630 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this project involved partner libraries at NIU, Villanova University, Stanford University, Bowling Green State University, and Oberlin College…
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Electric Lit’s Best Nonfiction of 2023
When it comes to nonfiction, this year featured some truly stellar writing. This was a year in which we’ve seen the expansion of what this genre is, and who writes it. Our truest stories, sometimes molded in the form of poetic lyricism or sensational public spectacle, yielded a larger than life impact. Questions of displacement…
