A Triumph of Moderates – Style Weekly
American novelist Pearl Buck said, “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” Although Buck…
Previewing the Festival of Books
On today’s show… The 23rd annual South Dakota Festival of Books kicks off next week in Spearfish. We’re…
Mariah Carey and Anderson .Paak ‘created’ her Play This Song music video – Music News
Mariah Carey and Anderson .Paak reportedly teamed up to create her Play This Song music video. The 56-year-old…
90 years of truth telling through literature
Cleveland has been transformed into one of the country’s most literary cities throughout September, with eight literary partners…
Canongate triumphs in six-way auction for Nikesh Shukla’s ‘generation-defining’ The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla © Fabrice Bourgelle Canongate has acquired Nikesh Shukla’s “generation-defining” The Good Immigrant following the closure of Unbound.…
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux audiobook review – anatomy of an affair | Fiction
In Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical story, translated by Alison L Strayer, the author recalls a past affair with a…
Fierceland by Omar Musa review – poet and rapper’s second novel pulses with life | Books
It’s 1998, and Roz and her brother Harun are waiting for the release of The Legend of Zelda:…
Cambridge and Max Planck announce OA book agreement
Shutterstock.com/N.M.Bear Cambridge University Press and the Max Planck Society have collaborated to develop a new book sales agreement…
Book of the Week: Abducting children into the bush
You can view the new number 1 bestselling New Zealand novel The Vanishing Place by Zoë Rankin as…
‘Lots of books, Scrabble, a pack of cards and James Norton. Oh, and some wine’: Alison Weir’s consuming passions
Alison Weir is potentially the nicest woman in publishing, but she is certainly the biggest-selling female historian in…
Jason Mott’s ‘People Like Us’: A novel of grief and joy
Gun violence, grief, love, and laughter collide in Jason Mott’s People Like Us, a novel that’s wickedly funny…
‘Looked at squarely, humankind is brea…
Portrait by Karen Robinson Katherine Rundell, 38, was born in Kent but spent much of her childhood in Zimbabwe…