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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to ThielOne can only imagine the horror the late Iain Banks would have felt on learning his legendary Culture series is a favourite of Elon Musk. The Scottish author was an outs...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictionsThe early 1960s was, for my generation in Argentina, an age of discovery when, in our ...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
The book about the trial of William Corder, publicly executed and dissected after being convicted of murdering his lover, is bound using his skinA second copy of a book bound in the skin of a notorious 19th-century murderer is now on display at a Suffolk museum....
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday....
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated....
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
The year the L.A. Times Festival of Books debuted was also a landmark year in American letters, shaping literary culture in ways that remain with us nearly three decades on....
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The Guardian » 4 weeks ago
‘I am a crime writer, I understand theft,’ said Val McDermid – joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalfA group of prominent authors including Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid have s...
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
Author Charlie Jane Anders reflects on reading and writing young adult literature in an era of explosive popularity that may now be coming to an end. ...
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
When Caroline Darian learned what her father Dominique Pelicot had done, to her and her mother, one part of her life ended. In her first memoir, she describes her trauma and her determination to fight. ...
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LA Times » 2 weeks ago
Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one of the most influential literary organizations in the U.S....
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