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Damon Galgut Wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
The novelist, shortlisted for two of his previous books, received one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards for his cutting depiction of a white…
What Do Authors Want Us to Know About Themselves? It Depends.
By Elisabeth Egan TELL IT LIKE IT IS What can we learn about authors from the brief biographies on the back of their book or…
He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find?
After Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, he instantly gained a wider international audience, something publishers are now scrambling to accommodate.…
What About the Heroine’s Journey?
The Harvard scholar Maria Tatar has made a career of studying fairy tales and folklore. Now she is taking aim at Joseph Campbell and showing…
The Stenographer Who Married Dostoyevsky — and Saved Him From Ruin
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Jennifer Wilson THE GAMBLER WIFEA True Story of Love,…
Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel
Omar El Akkad talks about “What Strange Paradise,” and Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang talk about Facebook and “An Ugly Truth.” Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |…
‘A Storm Waiting to Happen’: A Colombian Writer Watches His Home From Afar
Juan Gabriel Vásquez sees his new story collection, “Songs for the Flames,” as part of a thriving literary landscape in Colombia because, he said, “places…
Joan Schenkar, Biographer of Patricia Highsmith, Dies at 78
Ms. Schenkar was also known for experimental plays. In one, a reimagining of the Red Riding Hood story, Grandma was a butcher. By Neil Genzlinger…
Olivia Laing‘s Reading Piles Are Far From Organized
“There are something like 15,000 books in our house,” says the author of “Everybody” and other books, “including pretty much every poetry pamphlet published in…