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The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize, announced on Tuesday, includes 13 books covering a variety of genres, from thriller to dystopian science-fiction to love story. Two previous winners have again made the prestigious list – Douglas Stuart, who won shuggie bann in 2020, and Marlon James, who won the award in 2015 A Brief
Zadie Smith, Patti Smith and Mustafa are among the star names to be interviewed by Dua Lipa, as the pop star reveals her presentation of this year’s London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre. The festival, now in its 19th year, will run from October 21 to November 1, with the British award-winning singer shaping
In Grace Paley’s short story A Conversation with My Father makes a request to the Paley-like narrator. “I would like you to write a simple story once again,” her father says, “the way Maupassant wrote, or Chekhov wrote… just recognizable people and then write what happened to them next.” His effort, and his failure to
Road trips have always been more important than the destination. Authors Anne Hartnett and Kevin Wilson discuss the coincidences that connect their favorite road trip stories and their latest novels. copy Juana Summers, host: The most important character in any road trip story is the car. When Anne Hartnett was writing “The Road to Tender
The airy, modern home shared by Val McDiarmid and Joe Sharp on the outskirts of Edinburgh is surrounded by greenery and looks as if it was designed to provide enough space for two minds to think. Both women are high achievers in their respective fields, a Scottish power couple made up of a crime queen
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Some good old fashioned literary drama is just the thing for late summer. I think it pairs well with mint juleps and malaise. This week, people of this opinion were extremely pleased to learn that Rachel Cusk’s new novel (life of m) is apparently based on the life of real human actress Natalie Portman. And
YYou have been a scientist and conservationist for many years, and now the author of a new book on snow leopards, drawn from your 20 years of study in some of the most remote areas of the world. What do you think a good book about ecology should do? I believe that a good book
Motherhood makes for powerful storytelling. Horror fiction about motherhood highlights the insecurity and physicality of having and raising a child and all its attendant fears. In alejandra’s ghost By V. Castro, the many complexities of motherhood are revealed in a story inspired by La Llorona, the center of Mexican folklore. After learning the naked story