Nathalie Jolivert, ‘World Championship: Dessalines Pa Ap Pran Go l,’ Acrylic on Canvas 90 in x 192 in.
(c) Nathalie Jolivert
Confronted with centuries of exploitation by their country’s ruling class and foreign powers, Haitian writers warn against the impulse to seek solace in outside intervention or cynical humor.
It’s a brave new business world, so turning to novelists can help explore possible future scenarios.
(Shutterstock)
Reading fiction can help business managers study sensitive workplace issues in an exploratory way, without the challenges of collecting employee data.
A Trump supporter climbs scaffolding in an effort to breach the U.S. Capitol.
Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
What would happen, the Russian novelist wondered, when people lacking any semblance of ideological or moral convictions rise to power?
America’s top economists like to tell stories.
Jessica McGowan/Getty Images
Realizing that economics is a lot like fiction helps us better evaluate the claims economists make about the world we all live in.
People have sought more security and safety in their reading.
Andrii Kobryn/Shutterstock
From reading more to re-reading safe favourites, there are early signs that the COVID-19 has influenced how and what we are reading.
Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com
How writers hear their characters in their heads.
Top selection: the 2020 Booker Prize longlist.
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize has always struggled with inclusivity.
Pexels
Eco-fiction to help you rethink your role in the climate crisis.
Shutterstock
April 30, 2020
Isabel Hofmeyr , University of the Witwatersrand ; Aretha Phiri , Rhodes University ; Grace Musila , University of the Witwatersrand ; Manosa Nthunya , University of the Witwatersrand ; Nedine Moonsamy , University of Pretoria ; Sam Naidu , Rhodes University ; Sarah Nuttall , University of the Witwatersrand ; Susan Kiguli , Makerere University , and Tom Odhiambo , University of Nairobi
African academics draw up a reading list that speaks to the vibrancy of contemporary as well as older African literature.
Dudarev Mikhail via Shutterstock
A great novel transports you to a time and a place. Here are five of them.
Reading lets you experience another time, place, even mind.
Ben White/Unsplash
People have changed over time, growing ever more distant and isolated from others – while at the same time finding new ways and technologies that let individuals connect and feel with others.
While 97% of Romance Writers of America members are women, only 14% are people of color.
Refat/Shutterstock.com
The group seemed to be doing all of the right things to diversify its ranks. It wasn’t enough.
Fewer people are reading novels for pleasure than in the past.
from shutterstock.com
We have transitioned from a literate culture to one that values speed, immediacy and the decoding of small grabs of words in search for information. But old and new ways of reading can co-exist.
Louisa May Alcott has delighted readers for generations.
AP Photo/Steven Senne
Reading books from people with diverse backgrounds is good for kids.
Previously unseen Norman Lindsay manuscripts were written for adult readers.
Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
Recently uncovered Norman Lindsay novels reveal stories of love, lust and beaches.
shutterstock
A legal expert looks at the issue of robot rights and what makes us human.
A photograph of Ellen N. La Motte soon after completing ‘The Backwash of War’ in 1916.
Courtesy of the National Archives, College Park, Maryland
Ellen N. La Motte’s ‘The Backwash of War’ was praised for its clear-eyed portrayal of war, but was swiftly banned. Yet the similarities between her spare prose and Hemingway’s are unmistakable.
Li Kui (李逵), one of the characters in The Water Margin, battles tigers after they killed his mother. Utagawa Kuniyoshi, between between 1845 and 1850.
Wikimedia
In The Water Margin, first put to paper in the 14th century, local injustice is the rule, and defence against cruel local authority is a matter of vengeance, stratagem, and violence
German citizens in Magdeburg the morning after Kristallnacht.
German Federal Archive
Eight decades on, the thought of the state encouraging people to attack groups of citizens is hard to believe. Here are some books that might help.
Shutterstock
Have you ever read a novel in the second person? You probably found it strange.