The Literature of the Pandemic
Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers started to wonder, with a ...
Felice Picano, Champion of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 81
At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and ...
She feared she’d never write another novel. But criticism won’t silence this literary superstar
Criticism will not stop her speaking her truth. The idea of free speech, the subject of a powerful BBC Reith Lecture she gave in 2022, is something she holds dear. “I really resist the idea of being ...
New Scientist2d
Twisteddoodles on lab books as literary genres
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...
The Africa Report11h
Thomas Sankara: ‘I don’t like African literature’
In March 1986 the president of Burkina Faso, who hid his books in trunks to avoid revealing himself, granted a very personal ...
America Magazine1d
Why Catholic literary circles should remember the writings of William Barrett
William Barrett is hardly remembered in Catholic academic or literary circles, though his Catholic novels offer richly ...
The New York Times5d
Geoff Nicholson, Author of Darkly Comic Novels, Dies at 71
In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles. By Trip Gabriel Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary ...