Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
Why so few women in the London Review of Books?
Big data meets the Bard: how the digital humanities offer us different ways to ‘read’ a text.
The literary origins of Kim Kardashian/Kanye West’s baby’s name.
Janet Malcolm is one of the great recorders of la vie quotidienne of Manhattan: Forty-One False Starts reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Why do all these books have pictures of women’s backs on the cover?
A teacher and her student: a conversation with Marilynne Robinson.
What’s so wrong about giving up on a book? Nothing, says Oliver Burkeman, as long as you do it right.
This is a harrowing novel, relentless in its depiction of marital enslavement, spiritual self-destruction and the exploited condition of women in a masculinist society…It is a brilliant achievement. Michael Dirda in the Washington Post on Elizabeth Harrower’s The Watch Tower.
Frame’s delicious satire here is reminiscent of Jane Austen.
Felicity Plunkett on Janet Frame’s In the Memorial Room in the Sydney Review of Books.
How typeface influences the way we read and think (and why everyone hates Comic Sans MS).
To some of us, Romy Ash might be in familiar west coast territory with her first novel, Floundering, but her unsentimental, suspenseful and strangely elegant story is as powerful as its backdrop is instantly recognisable. Robert Drewe’s rave review for Floundering in the Read more
Damien Echols talks to Salon about how death row prepared him for his new life.
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have skyrocketed following the NSA data collection scandal. Here, some more examples of current events influencing book sales.
Jennifer Miller, author of The Year of the Gadfly, offers a DIY guide to creative book marketing.
25 things to know about sexism and misogyny in writing and publishing.
Related: an infographic of the gender balance of UK literary culture.
Professor Chris Turney, author of 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, is leading an expedition of researchers to Antarctica to follow in the footsteps of Sir Douglas Mawson. Learn more about this exciting adventure here.
