Tag: Literature
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Percival Everett’s Philosophical Reply to “Huckleberry Finn”
[ad_1] Percival Everett’s novels seem to ward off the lazier hermeneutics of literary criticism, yet they also have a way of dangling the analytical ropes with which we critics hang ourselves. His latest novel follows the misadventures of a runaway named Jim and his young companion Huckleberry in the antebellum American South. As in another…
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Which celeb is allegedly threatening Rebel Wilson over tell-all book?
[ad_1] Rebel Wilson’s book, “Rebel Rising” comes out next month – in which she names and shames a highly regarded British comedian, who is allegedly threatening her. ADVERTISEMENT Australian actress and comedian Rebel Wilson, best known for her roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids and Jojo Rabbit, has written a chapter in her upcoming book about…
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Oscars 2024: Your literary guide to this year’s Best Picture nominees
[ad_1] It’s a good year for literary adaptations in the Best Picture category. But how do the books differ from the films, and which of the source material or the adaptation work better? ADVERTISEMENT Hollywood loves to mine literature as source material for its films, and this year’s Best Picture nominees show the habit is…
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Oscars 2024: Your literary guide to this year’s Best Picture nominees
[ad_1] It’s a good year for literary adaptations in the Best Picture category. But how do the books differ from the films, and which of the source material or the adaptation work better? ADVERTISEMENT It’s World Book Day. Happy World Book Day. That is, if you’re in the UK and Ireland. The UNESCO World Book…
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Helen Oyeyemi Thinks We Should Read More and Stay in Touch Less
[ad_1] Every villain gets an origin story, but in the case of Thea, the wedding guest from hell in Helen Oyeyemi’s newest novel, “Parasol Against the Axe,” her own mother wrote it. The book flashes back to Prague, in the nineteen-eighties, when Dagmar Dlouhá, Thea’s mother, penned a series of popular children’s books starring her…
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How to write novels? Just do it!
[ad_1] My career as a novelist started with a tweet. On March 11, 2022, the news agency ANI tweeted: “On 9 March 2022, in the course of routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile.” It was followed by another tweet that said: “The Government of India has taken a…
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The Bartender and the Lost Literary Masterpiece
[ad_1] In 2021, Jack Chadwick, a twenty-seven-year-old barman and part-time go-go dancer, was browsing the shelves of the Working Class Movement Library, outside Manchester, when he spied an arresting book cover. The hand-drawn illustration showed a skeleton kneeling in supplication, its arms outstretched. Chadwick knew of neither the book, “Caliban Shrieks,” nor its writer, Jack…
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Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant wins 2024 TS Eliot prize for poetry
[ad_1] Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant won the coveted T.S. Eliot Prize for his second collection of poems, ‘Self-Portrait As Othello,’ which reimagines Shakespeare’s hero in a modern landscape. ADVERTISEMENT Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant has won the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, for his second collection of poems, ‘Self-Portrait As Othello.’ The book reimagines Shakespeare’s…