Hilary Mantel vs Margaret Thatcher
Zeljka Marosevic
In the past few years Hilary Mantel has become a literary superstar, winning a second Booker for her Thomas Cromwell series and being made a Dame in 2014 for her… Read more »
In the past few years Hilary Mantel has become a literary superstar, winning a second Booker for her Thomas Cromwell series and being made a Dame in 2014 for her… Read more »
Eleanor Catton is a national treasure. She’s not strictly “our” national treasure… well, she was born in Canada and grew up in New Zealand. And yet! Catton, Booker-winning author of… Read more »
A previously unpublished poem/drinking song by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas has been discovered and is expected to bring in several thousand pounds when it goes on sale. Caroline Davies (no relation)… Read more »
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize was awarded last week to Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a writer from Uganda currently living and teaching at Lancaster University in the UK. Established in 2012 alongside… Read more »
Damien Walter writes for the Guardian that short stories in science fiction are enjoying something of a golden age thanks to new means of consuming, promoting, and funding publication of… Read more »
When Edward St. Aubyn set out to write a novel that lampooned the world of literary awards, the last thing he expected was to win one of those awards for… Read more »
Writing for The Guardian, Will Self asserts the imminent marginalization of the novel in a piece called “The novel is dead (this time it’s for real).” “Here we go again,”… Read more »
Run for the hills! Ah! Robots are taking over everything! Just kidding—we like robots these days. But, it never hurts to remind them that we know what they’re up to.… Read more »
As you undoubtedly know by now, Alice Munro is the most recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized as being a “master of the short story.” When the… Read more »
Step aside, Bandersnatch Cummerbund. Sir Ian McKellen has been tapped to play detective Sherlock Holmes in an upcoming film directed by Bill Condon. Condon won an Oscar for his screenplay… Read more »