September’s Best Reviewed Fiction
Literary Hubby Book Marks14d ago
September’s Best Reviewed Fiction Featuring Marlon James, Emily St. John Mandel, Emma Cline, and More Marlon James’s The Disappearers, Emily St.
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top 75%A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn
Literary Hubby Colm Tóibín14d ago
A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn “He is ensuring that what he feels and what he thinks are secondary to the subject, the person who is dead or dying.” In August 1991, in...
On the Secret Three-Man Mission Deep in Nazi Europe That Won WWII
Literary Hubby Jason Bell14d ago
On the Secret Three-Man Mission Deep in Nazi Europe That Won WWII Jason Bell Recounts the Lead-Up to Operation Sparrow, the Allied Invasion of the Balkans That Never Was “Territorial male flies...
Happy International Translation Day!
Literary Hubby Literary Hub14d ago
Happy International Translation Day! Celebrating an Essential Literary Art This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Today is International Translation Day.
Cheever on Cheever! Tracy K. Smith! 20 great books out in paperback this month.
Literary Hubby Gabrielle Bellot14d ago
Cheever on Cheever! Tracy K. Smith! 20 great books out in paperback this month. October is here, and, with it, the thrills and chills of Spooky Season, a month of masks, madness, merriment, magic...
Pebbles - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby David Greer14d ago
by David Greer To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
From cordon bleu to pasta and pies: the best autumn cookbooks for 2026 – reviewed
The Guardianby Felicity Cloake14d ago
My autumn star Kitchening by Jeremy Lee (4th Estate, £30) It’s difficult to say what charms me more about this beautiful book, the second from the Dundee-born chef proprietor of century-old Soho...
The Swan contestants on the most sadistic reality show on TV: ‘Ultimately, we were just a job’
The Guardianby Adrian Horton14d ago
It was in 2003, while listening to country radio, that Kelly first heard the casting call: “Have you dreamed about plastic surgery but never thought you could afford it?” She immediately turned up...
The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’
The Guardianby Amandas Ong14d ago
After a tiring day as a school maintenance worker, 28-year-old Paul loves nothing more than unwinding with a good romance novel – ideally one with a fantasy or horror element to it.
Heavy Cream
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts14d ago
The week after we ransacked my grandmother’s house for bounty, we drove back to Maple Falls to attend as guests my grandmother’s memorial at the Northwest Hills Community Church.
Irish crime writer takes aim at the wicked stepmother myth in gripping new thriller
IrishCentral.comby Michelle McDonagh14d ago
Eleven novels into her career, Irish crime writer Sheila Bugler still sits down at her desk with no idea what the next chapter holds, or even the next word.
Missouri Williams and China Miéville among writers on ‘adventurous’ Goldsmiths shortlist
The Guardianby Emma Loffhagen14d ago
Missouri Williams, China Miéville and Polly Barton are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Goldsmiths prize.
Quote Of The Day By Florence Pugh: 'Something I've Always Been Keen On Representing Is Some Honesty With...' - TVLine
TVLineby staff@tvline.com (Eammon Parks Jacobs)14d ago
Quote Of The Day By Florence Pugh: 'Something I've Always Been Keen On Representing Is Some Honesty With...'
Slow Horses Season 6 Resurrects A 'Dead' Character – Here's How They Survived - SlashFilm
/Filmby staff@slashfilm.com (Ben Pearson)14d ago
Slow Horses Season 6 Resurrects A 'Dead' Character – Here's How They Survived This article contains spoilers for "Slow Horses" Season 6, Episode 3, "Resurrection."
Industry status to Malayalam cinema: Single-window clearance for shooting, lower power tariffs for cinema halls among proposals mooted by film bodies
The Hinduby G Krishnakumar14d ago
A special desk for single-window clearance for film shooting and other permissions from local bodies, relaxations in licensing norms for cinema halls and withdrawal of double taxation on movie...
On Translation Day, here are 30 translations into English of fiction from Indian languages
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff14d ago
All information sourced from publishers. My Poems Are Not For Your Ad Campaign, Anuradha Sarma Pujari, translated from the Assamese by Aruni Kashyap In a recently liberated economy characterised by...
Bharatbala’s ‘Ramnami’ wins National Award: The story of the Chhattisgarh sect that tattoos ‘Ram’ on their bodies
The Hinduby Sanjana Ganesh14d ago
The story of this national award begins with one photograph. Five years ago, Chennai-based filmmaker Bharatbala travelled to Champa in Chattisgarh, chasing the story of the Ramnami community, an...
The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
Open Cultureby OC14d ago
The history of the printed word is full of bibliographic twists and turns, major historical moments, and the significant printing of books now so obscure no one has read them since their...
Rapture review – cult Spanish horror is a deeply strange cheese dream of cinemania
The Guardianby Peter Bradshaw14d ago
This cult supernatural mystery from 1979 is a deeply strange cheese dream of a film from Spain, in which almost the entire opening 10 minutes unfolds in a jittery quiet.
Dèy by Edwidge Danticat review – motherhood and trauma in Miami
The Guardianby Sukhdev Sandhu14d ago
Dèy, Edwidge Danticat’s first novel in over a decade, begins with a bang. Magnolia, the daughter of Haitian parents now shopping for a birthday present for her own daughter, hears gunfire, maybe...