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Struggling to get a handle on modern-day China and all its complexities? Looking to have fun while doing so? The Detective Chen novels could be just the ticket.
Smith’s claim that she is writing about nothing is really her way of renouncing any expectation that her memoir should be anchored by a readily defined plot. This isn’t a story in which a lot of things happen.
Marlon James won the Booker Prize this week with a book that focuses on the unrest and violence of 1970s Jamaica, a troubled chapter that continues to shape the island nation’s present - and its future.
Many still regard George Orwell’s 1984 and its message about the nature of language and power “definitive”. But globalisation has revolutionised how we communicate; 1984 tells us nothing about our future.
Whether it’s ethnicity, gender or publishing firm, the Man Booker must do more to correct its poor track record.
Marlon James becomes the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize, from a shortlist of novels which reshaped the English language.
A study into the responses of Australian authors, publishers and readers to global changes in the contemporary publishing environment suggests authors are being innovative, but financial rewards can be elusive.
A brutal anti-communist purge 50 years ago plunged its literature into obscurity. But now, Indonesia is the Guest of Honour of the world’s largest book festival. What do you know about its literature?
Employing a unique literary method that blurred the genres of oral history and documentary prose, the Nobel Prize for Literature winner told the stories of a traumatized people.
The Belarussian is a worthy winner, but the Nobel is getting further and further away from its lofty origins.
Claudia Rankine, winner of the Forward Prize, has provoked discussions about poetry and race in the US. Why are these conversations not happening in the UK?
Sahota’s Booker shortlisted novel is acutely intelligent and very of the moment. It may well take the prize.
Fanfiction is nebulous, confusing and often mocked. It’s also explosively popular. So what is it?
Works of fiction are brimming with economic principles, but perhaps none more so than the detective story.
While legal precedent makes banning books difficult, it still happens.
When only six people showed up for a panel designed to raise awareness of banned books, the pot needed to be stirred a bit.
In a world full of catastrophe, what good are books? Specifically, can books be written to do good?
Is a novella published 130 years ago our best bet for explaining the worlds of 4D and beyond?
Sex is part of young people’s lives. So how do we teach young authors to navigate tricky narrative waters when they write about it?
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