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Short Story: J.G. Ballard’s The Garden of Time

Short Story: J.G. Ballard’s The Garden of Time | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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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14 Art Books to Read Summer 2024

14 Art Books to Read Summer 2024 | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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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Crime Fiction: Exploring Diverse Representation of Women in Historical Mysteries

Crime Fiction: Exploring Diverse Representation of Women in Historical Mysteries | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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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Interview: Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump

Interview: Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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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Classic Appreciation: Published 50 Years Ago, Robert Cormier's Novel, The Chocolate War, Has Been Repeatedly Banned

Classic Appreciation: Published 50 Years Ago, Robert Cormier's Novel, The Chocolate War, Has Been Repeatedly Banned | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
“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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Author Studies: Virginia Woolf and the Brontës

Author Studies: Virginia Woolf and the Brontës | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
A new scholarly book with obvious Bronté connections: Virginia Woolf and the Lives, Works, and Afterlives of the Brontës by Hilary Newma
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History: The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth – Bound to be brilliant

History: The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth – Bound to be brilliant | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From calfskin to cut-and-paste, a tribute to the graft and craft that goes into books
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Obituary: C.J. Sansom, bestselling author of literary historical mysteries, dies at 71

Obituary: C.J. Sansom, bestselling author of literary historical mysteries, dies at 71 | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
He sold millions of copies of his Shardlake novels, set in 16th-century England. His death came days before the premiere of a TV adaptation on Hulu.
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Awards: Basim Khandaqji, an imprisoned Palestinian author, has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Awards: Basim Khandaqji, an imprisoned Palestinian author, has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Basim Khandaqji, a Palestinian writer who has been confined to an Israeli prison cell for the past 20 years, has won this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his forth novel, A …
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Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe 

Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security.
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World Press Freedom Day

the purpose of the day is to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom, assess the state of press freedom throughout the world, defend the media from attacks on their independence and pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
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Essay-Review: The Dictionary People — The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie. Essay by David Skinner

Essay-Review: The Dictionary People — The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie. Essay by David Skinner | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The Oxford English Dictionary is a monumental achievement, the product of devoted obsessives for whom words mean even more than perhaps they should.
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About the essayist: David Skinner is an editor and writer who writes about language, usage, and dictionaries. He is the author of The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published and a former member of the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary.
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The best translated fiction, according to the International Booker Prize 2024 nominees

The best translated fiction, according to the International Booker Prize 2024 nominees | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
We asked the authors and translators longlisted for International Booker Prize 2024 to recommend their favourite works of global fiction that have been translated into English
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Essay (Excerpt): Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard by Bridget Quinn

Essay (Excerpt): Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard by Bridget Quinn | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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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Neglected Classic: Leon Forrest’s novel Divine Days, reissued after three decades, elicits from the reader every emotion from awe to exasperation

Neglected Classic: Leon Forrest’s novel Divine Days, reissued after three decades, elicits from the reader every emotion from awe to exasperation | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Above Par, Below Recognition: On the Rare Entertainments of E.C.R. Lorac’s Crime Fiction Novel, Death of an Author

Above Par, Below Recognition: On the Rare Entertainments of E.C.R. Lorac’s Crime Fiction Novel, Death of an Author | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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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Author Franz Kafka’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows

Author Franz Kafka’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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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‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’ — Paul Auster – a life in quotes

‘Getting a book idea feels like a buzz in the head’ — Paul Auster – a life in quotes | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The author of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 has died at the age of 77. Here are some of the most memorable quotes from interviews he gave throughout his life
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Awards: ‘It really isn’t good enough’: crime novel of the year award criticised for entirely white longlist

Awards: ‘It really isn’t good enough’: crime novel of the year award criticised for entirely white longlist | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Authors including Dreda Say Mitchell, Harriet Tyce and Sarah Pinborough have expressed disapproval of the Theakston Old Peculier award – the UK’s most prestigious crime-writing prize
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Debut Novel: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley — Part thriller, SF, and romance, and a lot of fun

Debut Novel: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley — Part thriller, SF, and romance, and a lot of fun | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Obituary: Paul Auster, award-winning novelist, dies at 77 

Obituary: Paul Auster, award-winning novelist, dies at 77  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Over more than 30 books, Mr. Auster often used New York as a backdrop for stories of characters struggling to make sense of life’s random chaos.
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Obituary: Paul Auster, Award-Winning Novelist and Scriptwriter, Dies at 77

Obituary: Paul Auster, Award-Winning Novelist and Scriptwriter, Dies at 77 | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.
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Freedom to Write Index 2023

Freedom to Write Index 2023 | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The 2023 Freedom to Write Index records the most jailed writers globally since the Index launched 5 years ago: 339 writers from 33 countries jailed in 2023, that's 101 more than in 2019.
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Essay: On César Aira’s Magic — How the eccentric Argentine author came to occupy the center of Latin American literature. By Alejandro Chacoff, translated by Jessica Sequeira

Essay: On César Aira’s Magic — How the eccentric Argentine author came to occupy the center of Latin American literature. By Alejandro Chacoff, translated by Jessica Sequeira | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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ALEJANDRO CHACOFF is a writer based in Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Apátridas, a novel, and the literary editor at piauí magazine. His work appears in The New Yorker, The NYRB, the New York Times Book Review, n+1, and elsewhere. JESSICA SEQUEIRA is a writer and translator currently based in Santiago, Chile.
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Appreciation: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

Appreciation: Time's Arrow by Martin Amis | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Although one of the best-known writers of his generation, Martin Amis was shortlisted for the Booker Prize just once, for this highly inventive portrait of a Nazi war criminal, whose life story is told in reverse
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