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The New York Review of Books
- We Goofed
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut, is a temple. Although the Beinecke is cuboid it has the atmosphere of a pyramid, flanked in faintly translucent marble slabs that suck light into the building and radiate it outward at the same time. A new literar...
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- Manet and Morisot: Game On
An important exhibition showcases a painterly repartee that altered the trajectory of the two artists’ work and, by extension, modern art itself....
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- ‘The Music of What Happens’
Seamus Heaney’s complete poems, following on editions of his letters, prose, and translations, confirm the extent of his achievement....
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- Art for Our Age of Chaos
The 2026 Whitney Biennial and the New Museum’s exhibition “New Humans; Memories of the Future” are attempts to respond to a world full of darkness, trauma, and strife....
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- Pentimenti
It was Jan van Eyck who first sent a ripplethrough greater Bruges by banishing both streakand stipple in a truly historicmoment that saw him painting “fat on lean”and leaving no trace of a brush stroke on either a girl’s sleek loinor the streamlined carcass of a bowhead whale.The process of scouring...📷
Paris Review - Interviews
- The Ignorant Art Historian: An Introduction
“One purpose of these studies is to be loosened from my scholarly superego (which isn’t very strong, in any case).”...
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- The Art of the Libretto: A Conversation with Nilo Cruz
“The opera centers on artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—but not exactly as themselves.”...
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- Empire Plaza State of Mind
“The Plaza is a case study in the lengths to which New York’s leaders have gone to find gargantuan sums of money to enact wild new visions for the state.”...
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- The Conundrums of Jan Morris: A Conversation with Sara Wheeler
“A Forrest Gumpian figure.”...
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- Making of a Poem: Jeffrey Angles on “Memory of a Three-Year-Old”
“I couldn’t spend another second thinking about parasitic roundworms.”...
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Literary Hub
- Lit Hub Weekly: April 20 – 24, 2026
Caroline Bicks unearths the word “clitter” and other wild discoveries while reading the first draft of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. | Lit Hub Criticism “Possibly the greatest lesson I got from the zine is that writing is about community.” How...
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- Haruki Murakami has a new novel coming out—and for the first time, it features a female main character.
Haruki Murakami’s next novel, The Tale of KAHO, will be published on July 3rd by Shinchosha Publishing Co, the AP reports. This will be Murakami’s first full-length novel since 2023’s The City and its Uncertain Walls (published in the US...
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- Maria Reva’s Endling has won the 2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize.
At a ceremony last night, Aspen Words announced the winner of their annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and...
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- One great poem to read today: Marie Howe’s “You Think This Happened Only Once and Long Ago”
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of...
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- Lit Hub Daily: April 24, 2026
How early aughts “women’s fiction” helped Sarah Vacchiano survive divorce. | Lit Hub Craft Geneen Roth explores the torture of diet culture and power of learning to live in (and love) her body. | Lit Hub Memoir “I like art...
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The Atlantic - Books
- Who Came Up With That?
Contrary to what we think of as intellectual property, most ideas are difficult to trace back to one human mind....
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- The Questionable Triumph of the ‘Baling Wire Hippies’
Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog was seen as a countercultural milestone, but his new book reveals his alliances with the powerful....
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- Eight of the Most Fascinating Biographies to Read
Each is animated by the author’s love—for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can do....
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- Is Cohabitation the Feminist Future?
Stories about women living together are proliferating—and offering alternative visions to the nuclear family....
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- Peter Hujar’s Photos Are All the Rage. He’d Be Shocked.
A new biography brings the late photographer’s relationship with the artist Paul Thek to vivid life....
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NPR Books
- Author details the spy network that took on America's post-WWII Nazi groups
In The Secret War Against Hate, Steven J. Ross details the racist, anti-Semitic groups that sprang up in the latter half of the 20th century — and the spy network that worked to bring them to justice....
- Family influencers make the lifestyle look good. But kids pay the price, new book says
What does it mean to monetize your offspring? To turn their childhood into content? In Like, Follow, Subscribe Fortesa Latifi explores what drives parents to become family influencers....
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- Want to lighten your mental load? First, let go of these gender myths
"Men can't see the mess." "Women are better at chores." These myths position women to take on more emotional thinking, says researcher Leah Ruppanner. She shares what works to reclaim your headspace....
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- The 11 most challenged books of 2025, according to the American Library Association
The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at U.S. libraries — the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color....
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- Malala Yousafzai on life before and after being shot by a Taliban gunman
As a teen, Yousafzai risked her life speaking out against the Taliban. "At the time, what scared me more was a life without an education as a girl," the Nobel-winner told Terry Gross at a live event....
Quill & Quire
- Ben Ladouceur, Trish Salah, and Joshua Whitehead named Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalists
Three poets have been nominated for the 2018 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.
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- Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home anthology wins 2018 Kobzar Literary Award
- Shortlist announced for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award
The nominees for the 2017 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award include Sydney Smith and Gabrielle Grimard.
- Tanya Talaga wins RBC Taylor Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers
Toronto journalist Tanya Talaga has won the RBC Taylor Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (House of Anansi Press).
- Gary Geddes wins Writers’ Union Freedom to Read Award
Author, poet, and translator Gary Geddes has been awarded the 2018 Freedom to Read Award.
Latin American Literature Today
- Co-Translating All That Dies in April: A Conversation between Will Morningstar and Samantha Schnee
All That Dies in April, a novel by Argentine writer Mariana Travacio, was published in English by World Editions in September 2025, in co-translation by Will Morningstar and Samantha Schnee. In this conversation, Samantha and Will discuss the surprises and challenges of this team effort, the benefit...
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- “The classics are old dogs, affectionate ones”: A Conversation with Antonio Rivero Taravillo
In the work of Antonio Rivero Taravillo (1963–2025), literature occupies a central place. Novels such as Los huesos olvidados, Los fantasmas de Yeats, and 1922 offer clear proof of this. He received the Antonio Domínguez Ortiz Prize for his study of the life of Juan Eduardo Cirlot and the Premio Com...
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- A Poem for Berta Cáceres
March 3, 2016 We grieve for Honduras Like the twin sister Who suffers at the same time as the heart We grieve Because we carry a sea of blood that unifies us Because for every thorn that wounds us Grandparents parents And siblings bleed. It breaks our soul To know that foreign gunpowder Keeps explod...
- The Irreparable, translated by Paul Filev
These “stories are deft and quietly (and sometimes deeply) unsettling, and the sense of the characters’ lostness is at once palpable and relatable.” — Brian Evenson The Irreparable is a collection of six stories by Venezuelan author Gabriel Payares, translated into English for the first time ...
- Even Time Bleeds, translated by Forrest Gander
Even Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of the work of Jeannette Clariond, a major contemporary Mexican poet known for her sensuous lyricism and philosophical gravity. Translated and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander, this volume gathers poems from across Clariond’s career ...
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The Guardian - Books
- ‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race
She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar explains why she’ll never stop speaking truth to powerWhen Donald Trump returned to office in January l...
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- Haruki Murakami to publish first novel to feature woman as lead character
The Tale of Kaho, out in July, will be 16th novel by Japanese author who has faced criticism for portrayal of womenThe Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami will publish his first novel to feature a woman as the main character this summer.The Tale of Kaho will be published in Japan on 3 July, with an eb...
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- Joe Dunthorne: ‘Growing up in Swansea, I developed an allergy to Dylan Thomas’
The author on feeling Thomas Hardy’s pain, being duped by Donna Tartt and how reading his sister’s copy of Trainspotting made him want to writeMy earliest reading memory
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- The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke review – a compelling debut of mental meltdown
A young woman’s dissociation from reality and her road to recovery are vividly rendered in this striking novel Meet Ada, the anguished young narrator of 26-year-old Albertine Clarke’s radically strange and engrossing debut novel. Adrift in London, Ada occupies herself by swimming in her apartment’s ...
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- Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
An imposter monkey, an underworld princess, art’s female trailblazers, and YA tales of fear, family and friendshipOur World: Nigeria by Bunmi Emenanjo and Diana Ejaita, Barefoot Books, £7.99Part of a delightful educational series from a brilliant inclusive publisher, this colourful, joyous board boo...
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Granta Magazine
- The Barefoot Boys of 1999
‘And brand-new switchblades / for future beards and defending our honour.’
- Principal Witness
‘The summons made clear that if I failed to turn up (which I had), a warrant could be issued for my arrest.’
- Mark Making
‘The work was pastoral, somehow the artistic equivalent of really liking Wordsworth – just a little too pretty to be serious.’
- My Mother Told Me Monsters Do Not Exist
‘That thing behind the door was so filthy, so repugnant, that I couldn’t imagine anyone I could call for help.’
- Picture Me Crying
‘Almost nobody has ever seen me cry. This has been true my entire life.’
Le Monde des Livres
- Histoire du nouveau livre de Grégoire Bouillier, « Un printemps avec Arsène Lupin » : à l’invitation de Radio France, l’auteur a enquêté sur le célèbre gentleman cambrioleur et le pouvoir du romanesque
Pour honorer cette commande d’une série de podcast destinée à France Inter, l’écrivain a écrit trois versions : un premier jet, hors cadre, resté impublié ; les 40 épisodes du podcast ; le livre issu de ces derniers....
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- A Vanves, le destin croisé d’exilés russes, de la poétesse disparue Marina Tsvetaeva aux réfugiés de Vladimir Poutine
A Vanves, en banlieue parisienne, un petit cercle littéraire cultive le souvenir de la grande poétesse russe Marina Tsvetaeva dans l’appartement où elle a vécu quatre ans, avant de retourner en Russie et de s’y donner la mort, en 1941. Désillusion, culpabilité, nostalgie… Les émigrés d’aujourd’hui, ...
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- Vincent Azoulay, helléniste : « Ce qui m’anime, c’est la question de la démocratie, de la fraternité, de l’autolimitation par le biais du théâtre, de la comédie, des rumeurs »
Rencontre avec l’une des figures de proue de la nouvelle école française d’histoire antique, qui ne craint pas de faire des allers-retours entre passé et contemporain. Son nouveau livre, « Ostracisme ! Du bon usage de l’arbitraire en démocratie », l’atteste....
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- Andreï Kozovoï, historien : « Le livre est une arme idéologique majeure »
Dans une tribune au « Monde », l’auteur d’un roman paru chez Grasset en 2025 rappelle que le livre fut, de la Russie soviétique à celle de Vladimir Poutine, au cœur des préoccupations idéologiques du Kremlin. Il met en garde contre les menaces qui pèsent sur le monde de l’édition et appelle à consid...
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- L’écrivaine argentine Samanta Schweblin, l’une des fortes voix de la littérature latino-américaine contemporaine
L’autrice fonde ses romans et nouvelles sur l’étrangeté qui fait trembler la frontière entre le réel et l’irréel. Les six nouvelles du « Bon Mal » confirment ce talent pour le malaise....
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Frankfurter Allgemeine - Bücher
- Frankfurter Anthologie: Thomas Brasch: „Ansturm der Windstille“
Dem Osten den Rücken gekehrt, im Westen nie ganz heimisch geworden: Ein Gedicht über die Perspektive des Exilanten und das grenzübergreifende Gefühl des Stillstands....
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- Sharon Dodua Otoo: Wenn sich Überleben und Edelmut ausschließen
Wie viel Gewalt- und Kolonialgeschichte passt in ein paar Stunden auf der Autobahn? Im neuen Roman der Bachmannpreisträgerin Sharon Dodua Otoo, „So, in etwa, ist es geschehen“, fährt die Protagonistin alles an die Wand....
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- Goethe lieben Lernen: Er will gelesen werden, nicht gelesen sein
Was die meisten Deutschlehrer vermissen lassen, liefert Gustav Seibt: ansteckende Begeisterung für Goethe. Mit seinem Buch „Ein Sommer mit Goethe“ macht er Werbung für den Nationaldichter....
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- Buchmesse-Gastland Tschechien: Das mythische Prag - eine Erfindung der Literatur?
Tschechien ist Gastland der diesjährigen Buchmesse in Frankfurt. Eine Reise nach Böhmen gibt Ausblicke auf den literarischen Herbst - und zeigt, dass hier eine neue, spannende Schriftstellergeneration heranwächst...
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- Fotograf Fred Stein: Seine Porträts kennt die ganze Welt – ihn hat man vergessen
Einstein, Arendt, Brandt, Brecht – über 1200 Porträts schoss Fred Stein. Nach seinem Tod 1967 kannte kaum jemand mehr seinen Namen. Daniel Siemens erzählt die bewegte Geschichte des Mannes hinter der Kamera....
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El País - Libros
- Javier Cercas: “EL PAÍS no solo ha tolerado que escribiese contra su línea editorial, sino que lo ha estimulado”
Episodio especial en vídeo de ‘Hoy en EL PAÍS’ con la entrevista al escritor por la publicación de ‘El periódico de la democracia’...
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- Anselm Kiefer: una grandeza hecha de ruinas
El Centro Hortensia de Valencia inaugura la próxima semana una exposición individual del gran titán del arte contemporáneo...
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- A El Último de la Fila le cuesta despegar en el primer concierto de su gira de regreso en Fuengirola
El grupo, que llevaba 30 años sin actuar, convoca a 18.500 personas en Marenostrum en un espectáculo al que le faltó la euforia que se merecía...
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- Como el rayo que no cesa: la constante defensa de la propiedad intelectual
La IA no debe poner en cuestión los principios rectores básicos del derecho de creación...
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- Reencuentro con Nijinsky en el Liceo
El magnífico espectáculo del Hamburg Ballet sobre el bailarín es una buena ocasión para repasar la vida del legendario personaje, su locura y su fabuloso salto...
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🌍 非洲文学
Brittle Paper
- Aké Arts & Book Festival Announces Dates for Its 14th Edition | 19 to 21 November 2026
Aké Arts & Book Festival, Nigeria’s most beloved literary gathering is returning to Lagos this November. The festival has confirmed that its 14th edition will hold in Lagos from 19 to 21 November 2026. If history is anything to go by, it is going to be worth the wait. For over a decade, Ak...
- Cassava Republic Press Becomes the First African-Owned, Black and Woman-Led Independent Press to Land on the Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist in the Award’s Thirty-Year History
The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is out, and it has delivered a moment that African literature will want to remember. Marcia Hutchinson’s The Mercy Step, published by Cassava Republic Press, has made the cut, one of six novels selected from what was already a strong longlist!...
- Soko | Ngito Makena | Fiction
I hate being in the market, which is probably the most un-African thing I have ever said. As a black girl, voluptuous, with unruly hair that defies whatever Sir Isaac Newton was on about, this should not be an opinion I hold so deeply. But I do. Soko demands too much of me, from […]...
- Dust, Divinity & Desire: Reclaiming Queerness in Pre-Colonial West Africa | Emmanuel Aneriba-Iga | Essay
Ghanaian queerness is often framed as a western concept, yet the laws that criminalise queer identities are themselves western colonial imports. What is defended as cultural preservation is, in many ways, inherited Victorian and missionary morality. Before queerness was criminalised, it was c...
- 750 Wisconsin High Schoolers Showed Up for Nnedi Okorafor | See All the Photos!
On April 7th, 2026, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, one of the largest public universities in the US, hosted an event celebrating African literature. Over 750 high school students from across the state of Wisconsin gathered for the annual Great World Texts student conference, this year centered...
The Johannesburg Review of Books
- The JRB Fiction Issue! (Vol. 9, Issue 3, December 2025)
Wamuwi Mbao • Makhosazana Xaba • Simon van Schalkwyk • Khadija Tracey Heeger • Sean Jacobs • Barbara Boswell •......
- ‘A reluctant, complicated love story spanning the globe and a myriad natural disasters’—Barbara Boswell reviews Ice Shock by Elleke Boehmer
Barbara Boswell reviews Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock, a novel saturated with extremes of love and increasingly calamitous climate events. Ice......
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- [Sponsored] Listen to an excerpt from Cursed Daughters—the glittering follow-up to the award-winning bestseller My Sister, the Serial Killer
Cursed Daughters—the highly anticipated new novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite—is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers! Braithwaite is a Nigerian–British novelist......
- ‘Always in search of uncompromising honesty in a compromised and compromising world’—Kevin Goddard reviews Kelwyn Sole’s latest collection of poetry, What is Owed?
Kevin Goddard reviews What is Owed? by Kelwyn Sole—a poet’s summing up of a life dedicated both to verse and......
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- Can we engage with power without being corrupted by it? Sean Jacobs reviews Mahmood Mamdani’s new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
Sean Jacobs reviews Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani, a rich and textured account of Ugandan and postcolonial African politics, and......
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Saraba Magazine
- Whiskey
There will be no nightmares to threaten me with a troop of teeth. No shadows that cling onto walls & heighten all I fear. Tonight, the flesh acknowledges its episodes of panic. How often it has bred a populace of anxieties & silenced the aftermath. I uncork a Jack Daniel’s, nearly fill a...
- Them
First of all, I have changed. I am hearing voices and I know that they are not real. I’ve been smoking too much weed for far too long, and now I have damaged my brain. I have fucked up. I smoke blunts – every day from 5pm until I pass out on the sofa watching […]
- Florence
I did not marry Obadiah for love, even though such marriages were becoming fashionable. I had to get him because Florence had her toji-lined eyes on him. Florence was a better catch. Florence had finished primary school with the White men. My education was aborted at Form Two because I was beautiful...
- Alice
Minutes before entering the bookstore, I stood outside and looked through a large, dim window. My bleary vision scanned the Hot Picks’ section, the Best Sellers’ section, then through and through to all the other visible parts of the bookstore. It was while scanning that I spotted you. Behind me, K...
- The Land of Fables
We lived in the town before it became a city. Before the construction of the lifesaving bridges, which annoyed people so much that they named them Confusion. We lived in the town before 24-hour television. Before the arrival of the internet and mobile phones. Before democracy. Before fila-wearing go...
🌏 亚洲文学
China Daily - Books
- Author Weir takes readers to the moon in Artemis
Andy Weir, author of The Martian, takes readers to another desolate world, but instead of the Red Planet it's the moon, in his new novel, Artemis....
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- Book Boom
The 5th China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair attested to growing interest in Chinese publications from local readers and international publishers alike....
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- Sharing economy turns new page with books
From sharing bicycle to sharing car, China's sharing economy has now swept into the book industry....
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- Tencent funds digital library in Kenya
The National Museums of Kenya in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization launched an open digital library for indigenous games funded by the Chinese firm Tencent Holdings Ltd on Monday....
- EU-China Literary Festival promotes cultural communications
The first EU-China Literary Festival was held in Beijing on Tuesday. By inviting 28 award-winning authors from the European Union and China, the festival set out to promote cultural exchanges between the two sides and give insights into the lives, works, and unique character of their literary tradit...
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
- Unlocking Palestine: Sara Yasin on Editing ‘The Key’
In the latest episode of the BULAQ podcast, co-hosts M Lynx Qualey and Ursula Lindsey talk with editor-writer Sara Yasin about the new publication The Key....
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- On Translation, Love, and Israeli Prison
Addie Leak talks with Tugrul Mende about the translation process, literary awards, and two very different translations processes: translating one book through a riot of multilingual voicenotes and another by an author who was inaccessible, in an Israeli prison....
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- Dima Wannous’s ‘Damascus: A Tomb and a Prison’
"We passed a vast area near my house in Mazzeh, its surface covered with unfinished cement buildings. The driver told me it was a residential and commercial development owned by Asma al-Assad. The next day, one torture survivor told me the purpose of the project was to hide corpses[.]"...
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- Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces 2026 Winners
Organizers at the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced their 2026 winners across ten categories....
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- Moneera Al-Ghadeer Answers: ‘Why Saudi Poetry?’
Tracing the Ether Contemporary Poetry from Saudi Arabia, ed. Moneera Al-Ghadeer, came out late last year from Syracuse University Press. The anthology brings together 26 poets responding to -- and writing a new future for -- a rapidly changing Saudi Arabia. Moneera answered a few questions about the...
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