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Jayne Anne Phillips exploded onto the American literary landscape with Black Tickets, a short story collection that remains so compellingly singular that it ought to function as a handbook for shor…
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The new horror books out in May 2024 have a little bit of everything to dig its claws into your heart and chill you to the bone.
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The Irish novelist on navigating success shortly after a cancer diagnosis and a marriage breakdown, the renaissance in Irish writing, and how his ‘tragic worldview’ fits the times
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"To force a link between fiction and the real is an act of violence against the imagination."
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About the essayist: Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. She is a writer of novels, plays, short stories, and narrative essays, and her most recent book is Minor Detail, which was short-listed for the National Book Award in 2020 and in 2021 was nominated for the International Booker Prize. Shibli teaches and engages in academic research at universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University in Palestine.
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The Irish author on the follow-up to his bestselling novel, being blanked at the Oscars and the joys of giving up drinking
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Here are the books that were named winners and finalists in the categories of fiction, history, biography, memoir, poetry and general nonfiction.
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The following is a short story from Senaa Ahmad, featured in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021. Ahmad’s short fiction also appears in The Paris Review, Pushcart Prize XLVI, Best Canadian Stories 2021, and The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Vol. 2. She was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction and received the 2019 Sunburst Award for Short Fiction. She's working on a short story collection.
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The 2024 Met Gala, this year co-chaired by Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez, and Zendaya, along with Anna Wintour, will be held at the museum on Monday, May 6, celebrating the exhibition …
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From an occult Renaissance manuscript and the history of eyeliner to Salman Rushdie’s new book, our staff and contributors have got you covered.
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It’s no secret I love historical mysteries. I spent my childhood reading Nancy Drew, The Famous Five and Secret Seven, progressing to Agatha Christie in my teenage and adult years. I rejoiced when …
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At 84, The Handmaid’s Tale author is as outspoken as ever. She talks about aging, culture wars - and why “the orange guy” can’t be allowed back into the White House
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“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today.
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Interview: Novelist and Film-Maker Miranda July on Emotional Honestly, Art-Making, and her New Novel
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The writer, filmmaker, and artist discusses motherhood, art-making, and her new novel All Fours.
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The best historical novels of 2024, as shortlisted by the judges for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
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To mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, three compelling books – including his unedited diaries – reveal the complexity of the author’s works and why ‘Kafkaesque’ is so reductive
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In the swinging scene of 1960s London, Rosamund is an anomaly: a socially liberal graduate student who is completely uninterested in sex. Her string of platonic boyfriends ends one night with an un…
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It’s not the pandemic. It’s not (only) the Devices. So what causes the “decline by 9”?
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Beatriz Nascimento’s groundbreaking research defied dominant White Brazilian academic narratives, instead emphasizing Black political agency.
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Five Dials Archive Five Dials was a literary magazine published by Hamish Hamilton from 2008-2023. Founded by Craig Taylor and Simon Prosser, and named for a seedy, now-extinct part of London near modern-day Charing Cross, Five Dials proudly published literary voices as canny and irrepressible as the misfits who once populated the lost neighbourhood which was […]
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Whenever French 18th-century artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard is mentioned, it’s almost always as a counterpoint to her better-known “rival,” Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.
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Death of an Author is a rare example of a novel by E. C. R. Lorac (the principal pen name of Carol Rivett) that does not feature her popular and long-serving series detective Inspector Macdonald. T…
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Man who emerges from German TV series is a far cry from myth of tortured artist alienated from his family and job
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