A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
The U.K. publisher Galley Beggar Press faces an existential crisis in the wake of the near collapse of online and pop-up retailer The Book People.
After a year in which it tried to put a series of controversies behind it, the Nobel committee for literature finds itself the subject of new protests.
Editor Michael Hingston and designer Natalie Olsen celebrate five years of producing the Short Story Advent Calendar.
Ashleigh Young draws on her own confusion, family history, and an idiosyncratic sensibility in her book of essays.
Jung Young Moon’s novel eschews traditional notions of plot, character, and conflict in favour of a digressive dreamscape.
Three trans writers speak about TPL’s decision to allow a controversial speaker to appear at a local branch tonight – a decision they argue will have negative repercussions for the trans community.
The American crime writer Don Winslow opened the 2019 Toronto International Festival of authors with an insightful conversation about writing, genre, and the U.S. war on drugs.
Two Dublin city councillors have a plan to exhume the bones of the great modernist writer and return them to his birthplace.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1884 chiller “The Body-Snatcher” is a tale of supernatural horror with moral overtones.
Kevin Barry’s third novel features two career criminals waiting at a seedy Spanish port for the arrival of the estranged daughter of one of them.