Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
‘I think I’d rather enjoy being a dog trainer’: Melinda Houston, author of Kat Jumps the Shark, interviewed at the Wheeler Centre.
What’s the difference between bailing out of a movie, a book or a theatre performance?
‘The detective story equivalent of the kitchen sink’: Michael Dirda reviews The Mystery of a Hansom Cab in the Washington Post.
This is great fun: the OED birthday word generator tells you what words entered the English language the year you were born.
After Clare Wright’s Stella Prize win for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka last week, Michelle Smith considers the importance of women’s literary prizes at The Conversation.
‘If childhood is life’s great force, and the novel is our unflinching explorer of that force, then Elena Ferrante is the most piercingly astute novelist of childhood we currently have.’ The Sydney Morning Herald on Elena Ferrante’s Read more
Watch a concert with music composed by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, based on the characters and motifs of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game.
The LA Review of Books considers David Levithan’s writing career and his contribution to queer YA literature.
The problem with ‘women you should be reading’ lists.
Bonfire of the Humanities: on saving the famed manuscripts of Timbuktu.
‘His lyrical encounters with a wide range of modern Delhiites reveal a novelist’s ear and are beautifully sketched’: Rana Dasgupta’s Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi reviewed in the Telegraph.
‘It’s a book to catch, before it takes flight’: Jay Griffiths' A Love Letter from a Stray Moon reviewed in the Independent.
A history of love (of bookstores).
‘Dating a writer was one of my bigger relationship snafus—his ego often made our duo a trio.’ Read more
Listen to Marie Darrieussecq read from her novel All the Way and discuss her work on the Guardian books podcast (from around 9:00).
Which books from your past do you read now with ambivalence?
