Category: Books and Literature

November 28, 2023, 4:55am November is nearing its end, and, after a holiday weekend that may have been filled as much with leftovers as the kind of family drama that…

The following is from Nita Prose’s The Mystery Guest. Prose is the author of The Maid, which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and was published in more than…

November 27, 2023, 4:18pm Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building…

November 27, 2023, 11:18am Paul Lynch proved the bookies right when he became the sixth Irish writer (after Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Anne Enright, and Anna Burns) to…

November 27, 2023, 8:59am Photo by Rachel Cobb Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have signed a lucrative deal with Simon & Schuster to write a book about whatever the hell…

There is a common folk theory that the North American streetcar disappeared because of a conspiracy. Allegedly, industrialists connected with the auto and motor bus industries bought up North American…

My discovery of Juan Rulfo – like that of Kafa – will without doubt be an essential chapter in my memoirs. I had arrived in Mexico on the same day…

Prophet Song is a terrifying book—this much you’ll have gathered from peer blurbs, readers’ reports and media reviews. Paul Lynch’s fifth novel comes direct from the can’t-happen-here school of near-future dystopian,…

The idea of exploring mature female characters came to me while rereading Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa, I realized with a jolt, is only fifty-one.There are moments when she feels like a…

Featured image: Jonathan Rolande via Flickr How are swear words born? The process begins with certain words being widely dispreferred within a given community. This sets the scene for the…