This morning, Paramount released the first trailer children of blood and boneHis exhilarating adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s best-selling young adult novel. Set to a Beyoncé soundtrack and teasing a killer line-up of our best living actors – including Viola Davis, Regina King, Amandla Stenberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo – the trailer depicts
The best of literary internet Today: In 1900, Henry Spencer Ashby, author, bibliographer, and renowned collector of erotic literature, died. How is the fascination with Sylvia Plath similar to the fascination with true crime? Sarai Walker explores obsession, possession, and Plath worship. | lit hub biography “Even as a child, I’m in awe of mountains.”
Emily Wilson, the classicist behind the buzz odyssey My generation of translations has finally given importance to film adaptations of their favorite poetry. And the shadow was so deep that Wilson’s withering takedown crashed its host site: The London Review of Books, No usually Known for his astronomical virility. We might have guessed that Wilson
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
Your favorite modernist is getting three new adaptations this summer. Virginia Woolf, supreme oracle to us sad literary girls, has graced the silver screen this summer — thanks to a remarkable trio of new adaptation. Although his work is famously neurological—and, rightly so, literary-This is far from Virginia’s first celluloid rodeo. In 1992, feminist filmmaker
I went to high school and college at the height of the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s. We knew gender discrimination was a problem—but we were to solve it. Article continues after ad My father, who was the head of our family, encouraged me to become a doctor. I was the eldest and golden
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There is no doubt that Japanese literature has been one of the outstanding successes for British bookshops in recent years: almost half of the best-selling translated fiction titles in 2024 were from Japan. Most Japanese fiction translated into English fits into broad categories – cats, crime, coffee shops – but one surprising bestseller stands alone.
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