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Orbital
There was a lesson at school about the painting Las Meninas, when Shaun was fifteen. It was about how the painting disoriented its viewer and left them not knowing what it was they were looking at. It’s a painting inside a painting, his teacher had said – look closely. Look here. Velázquez, the artist, is…
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Salar Abdoh on Working Against the Masculine Default
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, First Draft celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully…
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Headline nets Young’s two new cosy crime novels set in Scarborough
Headline has signed a further two-book cosy crime deal with author Glenda Young. Fiction editor Clare Foss acquired world English language rights to Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel and another book from Caroline Sheldon at the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency, and the first book will be published in 2025. The Scarborough-based cosy crime series, featuring Helen…
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Headline nets Young’s two new cosy crime novels set in Scarborough
Headline has signed a further two-book cosy crime deal with author Glenda Young. Fiction editor Clare Foss acquired world English language rights to Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel and another book from Caroline Sheldon at the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency, and the first book will be published in 2025. The Scarborough-based cosy crime series, featuring Helen…
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Bibliophiles revel in a lit weeked at Bangalore Literature Festival
ByAayushi Parekh Dec 04, 2023 01:15 PM IST Share Via Copy Link This edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival saw insightful sessions, book stalls teeming with young minds and happy faces The 12th edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF), which took place over the weekend, saw close to 30k people come together to discuss…
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The best politics books of 2023
This has been a year of ghosts. At home, history returned to haunt British politics, with David Cameron recalled to government (why hello, ghost of Christmas past) and the Covid inquiry summoning Boris Johnson’s period of rule (more like ghosts of Christmas parties). Abroad, the threat of a Trump comeback hangs over the US, while…
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Author Spotlights: PNW literary gems from Mountaineers Books
With the cozy season upon us, we’re excited to load up on some good reads for the months ahead. We figured local publishing company Mountaineers Books would be the best place to peruse the options. This independent nonprofit was launched back in 1960 by volunteers of The Mountaineers who released the world’s best-selling climbing instructional…
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Arthur Conan Doyle secretly resented his Sherlock Holmes creation, says historian
Arthur Conan Doyle secretly hated his creation Sherlock Holmes and blamed the cerebral detective character for denying him recognition as the author of highbrow historical fiction, according to the historian Lucy Worsley. Doyle was catapulted from “obscurity to worldwide fame” after his crime stories began appearing in a magazine in 1891, Worsley writes in the…
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Greek Australian narratives to enrich your summer reading
As summer’s embrace beckons and the spirit of Christmas looms, immerse yourself in storytelling with the gift of books—a treasure that transcends seasons. Neos Kosmos presents a curated selection of captivating works by Greek Australians and Philhellene writers, each a vivid tapestry of Hellenic themes and the experiences of the Greek Australian community. From novels…
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At Westerly Library and Wilcox Park: Celebrate end of prohibition with books
Not that you have the bandwidth for any extra holidays before the end of the year, but on the off-chance that you’re looking for something more to celebrate … did you know that tomorrow is Repeal Day? Celebrated on Dec. 5 each year, this day marks the passing of the 21st Amendment, which effectively repealed…