Hong Kong authorities have raided two bookstores and arrested five people on suspicion of allegedly selling seditious publications, in the latest move targeting independent booksellers. Videos and photos from multiple media outlets on Wednesday showed officers wearing vests with “Police” written on them, seizing boxes from the building that houses Have a Nice Stay, a
my earliest reading memoryMy parents were country people who thought tending or chasing animals was more fun than reading: my father used to say he read half a book in his life (The Lonely Skier by Hammond Innes), and while my mother got three or four novels a year, she didn’t expect me to do
Maya C. Popa is the poetry review editor at Publishers Weekly and author of If You Love That Woman: Poems, A collection of poems inspired by nineteenth-century courtship letters is published this week from WW Norton. Below, she discusses the appeal of courtship letters in the age of instant communication. (Photo credit: Diana Solis) I
AAbout 14% of Ireland is moorland: vast areas of moss-covered land, beneath which layers of ancient history have blended into the moist grass-black turf. Captivated by their unearthly beauty, Seamus Heaney wrote some of his best poems about bogs – and about the bodies discovered, perfectly preserved, in their eerie depths. Sheila Armstrong’s excellent second
IIn this brilliant alternative history of the modern world, academic and “party historian” Imogen Willetts looks at the last 500 years of civilization through the sometimes bleak lens of its dark aftermath, with fascinating results. She begins by trying to capture what it feels like to go out on a big night, focusing on a
Maya C. Popa is the poetry review editor at Publishers Weekly and author of If You Love That Woman: Poems, A collection of poems inspired by nineteenth-century courtship letters is published this week from WW Norton. Below, she discusses why we can’t get enough of epistolary courtship. I fell in love with Sally McDowell and
I‘Creating a sandwich: soft white roll, roasted chicken, sharp cheese. A bright little slice of tomato. After finishing this review I will go to the supermarket and buy a Hot Cook for myself. sink my teeth into This was not my idea. I caught Laura McPhee-Brown’s Wry Doll Lust. One of his characters craves the
The National Year of Reading should be extended into a National Decade of Reading, an Education Committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded. The committee argues that the government should also commit to a national reading guarantee that would ensure that all children have regular opportunities to enjoy reading. The Reading for Pleasure Inquiry
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