At least twenty new literary works that used my father’s life as a subject appeared on bookshelves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

More recently in Carmel there have been a great number of literary men about, but there is not the old flavor, the old dignity of the true belles-lettres. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Maer Hall, he proudly gave Elizabeth a copy of his book, his first literary child, as he called the Journal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This private detective is the creation of San Francisco’s own literary son, Dashiell Hammett, and appeared in his novel The Maltese Falcon, as well as three short stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, we were talking about Henry’s secret literary career.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For safety’s sake, then, hyperbole should be used with restraint and only by those with the proper literary training. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

You have successfully completed my literary challenge and have proved yourself a master of riddles, puzzles, and navigating San Francisco and its rich literary history. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He endured the “whirl of noise and motion,” as Dickens characterized London in his then-current serial, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, which everyone was gobbling up in Bentley’s Miscellany, a literary magazine. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’s there, her pale skin and watery eyes make her look glamorously tragic, like a literary heroine wasting from consumption. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Thus is created a virginal society on which the author can wreak whatever literary havoc he chooses. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And then, to the surprise of a lot of people, he became Poe’s literary executor, which meant he had access to all of Poe’s papers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Its arrival in the bookstores was not a major literary event. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years after launching their paper, Anthony and Stanton sold it for one dollar, and it was turned into a literary journal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Monterey is a city with a long and brilliant literary tradition. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Monterey was not a town to let dishonor come to a literary man. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. “Well—this is just a literary sort of exercise,” Pacheco told him scornfully, at last awarding the spiders a disdainful glower. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jorge, a literary Argentine, did much to spread Argentine culture. asked. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took writing samples from some of his most artistically minded subjects and had literary critics compare them to the early writings of famous authors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s speech was a political as well as a literary tour de force, and what was really clever about it—not to mention cheeky—was that he used it, in effect, to game the Constitution. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He got on well with Boyle, becoming his literary agent and translating Boyle’s books, but unfortunately he took a dislike to Hooke. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

If the other boys on the block were now smaller than me physically and somewhat behind in their athletic ability, they were far behind in their literary skills. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were certain that this new literature had an important role to play in helping to shape the consciousness of a people lacking adequate literary representation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said later, “The success of this my first literary child always tickles my vanity more than that of any of my other books.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other voice, the one I hid from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature Harlem had a rich literary heritage of which I knew nothing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

What was more, her poems had appeared in at least twenty small literary magazines, two “slicks,” six college journals, and the Sunday supplements of countless newspapers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clerval had never sympathised in my tastes for natural science; and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ironically, Nicholas, by not paying attention, you have stumbled upon another literary device called a malapropism.* Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You have found the first clue in Garrison Griswold's literary scavenger hunt launched on November 10. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She read constantly and offered, in letters to Etty mostly, her literary criticism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He too was drawn to the same literary icons like a moth to a flame: Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Goethe and Shakespeare. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I was delighted at the change, back to my known and trusted life—but here I run into a literary difficulty. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immie’s people, temporary and literary friends of the week, acquired on the beach or at the flea market, cycled through the house. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Both are way more practical than dissecting literary symbolism.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“So besides tempting fate with melted cheese and literary airs of pretension, what else is in your risk-taking repertoire?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He seemed literary, to the extent we knew what that was, but not spellbound by his own voice. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The family even holds literary salons in their home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to offering literary treasure hunts, Book Scavenger provides a wonderful online community for book lovers of all ages. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This girl has a paper on genocide to write and last week’s Trig problems, and a catch-up test about literary devices in some stupid story. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

You have found the first clue in Garrison Griswold's literary scavenger hunt launched on November 10. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This paying back of the antiseptic government for its literary terrors and conflagrations. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only people allowed inside his hotel room were his lawyers, who needed wills created, and his literary agent, who needed his next contract signed before Howie could kick it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I would send my poems out, to literary quarterlies or magazines, and wait for their return. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wonder if we’ll befriend any literary icons this year or travel to any historic locations. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Romanian folk dancing? Aristotelian literary criticism? Or perhaps—Mr. Jankowski—you completed a performance degree on the accordion?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Through the narrative, he’d made a kind of literary peace with his phantom father. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Comics and graphic novels can be literary too. But now it’s time to discuss The Scarlet Letter,” Elle said, tilting her head to our class. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small tribe of Iks, formerly nomadic hunters and gatherers in the mountain valleys of northern Uganda, have become celebrities, literary symbols for the ultimate fate of disheartened, heartless mankind at large. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had published a few pieces in small, serious literary magazines early in our marriage, written some book reviews, articles, but nothing, she said harshly, that wasn’t half- embarrassing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a world without peer review, texts, in order to convey trustworthiness, reliability and accuracy, had to employ literary devices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There are already cryptic advertisements in the Personal columns of literary magazines, urging the purchase of electronic headsets for the training and regulation of one’s own brain waves, according to one’s taste. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth night, she said that she never liked the one poem he’d ever published in his life, in a literary magazine in Utah. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When an author wanted a character to be awoken at dawn, Colin figured the author just used the literary tradition of the crowing rooster to make it happen. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I hear about their newspaper, the Hilltop, and their literary journal, Amistad. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Jo’s book was the pride of her heart, and was regarded by her family as a literary sprout of great promise. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she is employing the literary conceits and techniques of a novel. And the meeting you speak of has already occurred—you have been reading it for the past quarter of an hour.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He joined a literary society and the editorial board of the college magazine. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When teachers suggested I contribute articles to the school literary magazine, I did so. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The answer to this question is to be found in a notebook belonging to an English lawyer, musician and literary figure, Roger North. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was also inventing a new literary genre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In California he fell among literary people and, as he still had a little of the fifty thousand left, in a short time he was backing a review of the Arts. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Barack, meanwhile, came home from Bali looking tanned and carrying a satchel stuffed with legal pads, having converted his isolation into a literary victory. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She became literary editor of the college paper, joined the sorority Pi Beta Phi, and was even elected class president. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In our writing symposium, entitled “Fighting Intolerance,” we solicited help from some of our literary idols. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In addition to offering literary treasure hunts, Book Scavenger provides a wonderful online community for book lovers of all ages. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In a curling, fading copy of the Forest City Courier glued on the back wall was an article about the local literary club who discussed “The Negro in Literature” at one of their meetings. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Big Red chased the swaying patterns while his master swept and dusted, scrubbed the floor and scoured the toilet and cleared the desk of literary accumulations. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex Haley and I had discussed the possibility of my writing his autobiography to acknowledge our literary circle, our family of writers—my father to him and him to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her autobiography, Elizabeth described Bayard as “a tall, fully developed man, remarkably fine looking, with cultivated literary taste and a profound knowledge of human nature.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But our talk had no room for literary seduction. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were literary critics, and they thought Billy was one, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, to the surprise of a lot of people, he became Poe’s literary executor, which meant he had access to all of Poe’s papers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I hope you enjoyed my literary treasure hunt, despite Mr. Remora’s antics,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I knew I was lucky to have older cousins to take me on adventures that included meeting my literary heroes and drinking tasty vodka concoctions. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“To be, or not to be ... ” may be the most celebrated aporia in literary history. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Latin did not drive Norse out as the literary tongue. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gave her house the foreign air she liked to affect, for she was the core, the very heartbeat, of the city’s literary world. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my left, two hulking giants have a very polite discussion about the literary merits of Hemingway. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

You have successfully completed my literary challenge and have proved yourself a master of riddles, puzzles, and navigating San Francisco and its rich literary history. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She knew she was holding a one-of-a-kind literary treasure and should be feeling something along the lines of awe or amazement, but all she felt was disappointment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We’d pick out a passage from the Bible and examine it from a literary standpoint. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A. A combination of contradictory words B. The outcome of a sequence of events C. An implied reference to a literary or historical event D. A symbolic story or narrative.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Meandering, non-narrative prose or poetry, like musical symphonies, would not find their literary equivalents until James Joyce’s Ulysses or T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, both published in 1922. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“By God, you’ll set the literary world on edge,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It takes cognitive toil and literary dexterity to pare an argument to its essentials, narrate it in an orderly sequence, and illustrate it with analogies that are both familiar and accurate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“As a literary arts major, I can assure that’s just a mess. You basically said that you won’t say you told me so.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Shukumar was soon bored; he was unable to decipher the literary diction, and couldn’t join the rest of the audience as they sighed and nodded solemnly after certain phrases. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But if I'm honest, it's more than affection—this is how I used to feel about my literary crushes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I had never lived in such an enthusiastically literary and reform latitude before,” she later wrote, “and my mental powers were kept at the highest tension.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were girls who formed an orbit around him, bohemian and literary types who were looking for a voice and a spirit to speak to them from beyond Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It is an odd literary reference for Volpe to make, because the person who discovers this evidence of illicit, unmarried sex is someone outside the relationship, the mother. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her lips moved as if she were speaking Sophocles’ lines to Sophocles himself, as if, contrary to all intellectual evidence, she understood the literary reasons for their endurance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We talked of our mutual friend, the literary historian Maxwell Geismar, who had introduced us by correspondence a year ago. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This private detective is the creation of San Francisco’s own literary son, Dashiell Hammett, and appeared in his novel The Maltese Falcon, as well as three short stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She was talking “books” with Mr. Gouvernail and trying to draw from him his opinion upon current literary topics. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

He was also a major literary figure of the Restoration period, writing on many subjects, including works of fiction. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I know these are not important literary questions and that your book is full of important literary questions, but I would just really like to know. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She knew she was holding a one-of-a-kind literary treasure and should be feeling something along the lines of awe or amazement, but all she felt was disappointment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

More literary output is needed from professionals in this area. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We got home from California to learn that the publisher had canceled his contract, sending word through his literary agent that Barack was now on the hook to pay back his $40,000 advance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No, I know that. I didn’t think you read comics, though. I mean, your reading selections are always so literary,” I said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t she know by now that I’m just a nerd who edits the school literary magazine? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So crowded is our stock of figurative language that every profession—legal, corporate, fashion, artistic, literary, and so on—seems to have a collection all its own. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her reclusiveness proved no barrier to the county's continued efforts to market her literary classic—or to market itself by using the book's celebrity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To Colin's mind, the rooster crowing at dawn was nothing more than a literary and cinematic trope. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Lori heard about a scholarship sponsored by a literary society for the student who created the best work of art inspired by one of the geniuses of the English language. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Don Quixote—the famous literary madman—fought windmills. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She was brilliant, had been an avid reader her whole life, and she was a terrific literary critic, editor, and proofreader. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my age then, I wasn’t much of a judge of literary or academic quality, but Zora’s learning was real. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually a few of the poems were published, and then a few of the stories, mostly in small literary magazines that paid in contributors’ copies. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The lyrics to these songs contain literary and social references, and are rife for inclusion in the interdisciplinary classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“My mother used to say you would become a leading literary critic.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I asked her earlier if I could do any of the literary works we’d studied this year. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

To continue spreading our message, we’ve planned a trip to Europe that will bring our literary journey full circle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was in this, the literary area, that their acquaintanceship really suffered, however. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The duchess hoped to pursue a literary career. questionnaire. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But time pressures inevitably curtail my literary investigations. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They established that Queenie and the gentleman’s wife had been at the same college, albeit nearly twenty years apart, and traded literary quotations in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He was not even allowed to republish an article about literary ciphers in Edgar Allan Poe’s nineteenth-century short story “The Gold-Bug.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“A fascinating story. I recently reread it myself. Very well, Kyle. We will contact your brother to determine if he does indeed qualify as a literary expert. It may take a while.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I hope you enjoyed my literary treasure hunt, despite Mr. Remora’s antics,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The girls’ names are in most regards diverse, though with a fair share of literary and otherwise artful touches. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Her dad had only mentioned they were moving to the home of his literary idol, oh, sixty million times. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And all of these areas had histories, sprawling literary canons, fieldwork, ethnographies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“He knows books and literary history incredibly well—I always forget that not all book people are good people.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

H. G. Wells’s literary agent told the press that he never authorized changes to the original story that could cause such alarm. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“He knows books and literary history incredibly well—I always forget that not all book people are good people.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her dad had only mentioned they were moving to the home of his literary idol, oh, sixty million times. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The novel as mirror, the novel as reflection, a literary game of shadows, in a sense. 'The Meursault Investigation' re-imagines Camus' 'Stranger' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

He’s been writing since he was a teenager, forsaking everything else — work, family, romance — in his single-minded pursuit of literary fame. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

To what degree should a reporter be just a witness, and to what degree an author who includes his or her own outlook, interpretations and literary style? What they're reading in Poland 2011-04-04T07:00:02Z

But where you may suffer on individual books, you gain in a broader understanding of the literary trends of your time. ‘Pleasure, Obligation, Curiosity, Inspiration’: What’s on Marie Arana’s Nightstand 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

When the change was announced last year, some in the British literary world expressed concern that British writers might be shortchanged by the expansion, shouldered aside by the larger American publishing market. Man Booker longlist announced: First global list embraces America 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

“His new book, ‘Trio,’ delivers much of the same set of literary goods, with perhaps a lighter touch than usual.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Patchett took the author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert, shopping there one day last year, and during a literary talk that night, they dished about the Christian Dior flats that Ms. Gilbert purchased. Is This the Best-Kept Secret in Fashion? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

But for Peace, such literary appropriation links Akutagawa to our own postmodern world of blurred genres and textual borrowing, of which “Patient X” is a distinguished example. His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

He and Palestinian American literary scholar Edward Said founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in hopes that giving Arab and Israeli student musicians the opportunity to play together might lead to understanding, if not necessarily friendship. New Gehry concert hall in Berlin thrills with its sound — and its symbolism 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

This, perhaps, is Capote's crime in the high court of literary criticism: that he lied about his art. Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction 2013-02-19T15:55:29Z

The book was a solo hash dream, a one-man literary version of a found-footage assembly, sent special-delivery from Kerouac’s soul to the reader’s mind. On the Road: Sex, Drugs and Kristen Stewart 2012-12-20T16:00:10Z

Lethem is a student, and frequently a master, of literary genre. The Wheels Come Off an American Journey in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Words like “enduring” and “indispensable” should be saved for only the rarest literary achievements, and the memoir “In Other Words” is one of those. ‘In Other Words’ review: Jhumpa Lahiri’s love letter to Italian 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

For Flaubert, that closed loop was literary, sexual, and spiritual. “Afterlives of the Saints” 2012-06-23T00:00:00Z

Historian Diana Butler Bass brings literary gravitas to the genre and admiringly draws upon a wide range of source material from religion to sociology to classical ethics. Review | The benefits — and limits — of today’s gratitude movement 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

With the death of Gabriel García Márquez in 2014, Mr. Vargas Llosa is the last surviving member of the boom, that tight ensemble of writers who put Latin America on the literary map. Mario Vargas Llosa on Love, Spectacle and Becoming a Legend 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Think about Western literary history: a white dominant culture producing books for readers of similar backgrounds. Writer’s imagination vs. cultural appropriation: In search of common ground 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

But what do celebrities who venture into the literary world discover? Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins 2013-02-13T18:00:02Z

More than literary ambition, he was motivated “by desire for these other things, hungers of all kinds.” A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

But it is not setting any literary precedents. 'If I had known Richey Edwards there's no way I could have written it' 2010-09-20T14:01:00Z

Even though it was a real-life phenomenon, most films about passing, including Pinky and Show Boat, have literary roots. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Victoria Pope, the editor in chief of the new Smithsonian Journeys magazine, said she wants to give readers a visual and literary experience. A Look at Smithsonian Journeys’ First Edition 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

For one thing, they've already been there; the movie cannot be more than a zealous approximation of Rowling's achievement, a fair copy of a rapturous literary experience. Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise 2011-07-10T05:45:00Z

Mirren compared the widow Winchester, whom she called “fascinating,” to jilted spinster Miss Haversham from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” a literary character famous for being an eccentric, distraught recluse who lives in the past. Helen Mirren delves into the haunted mystery of 'Winchester' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Just before the interview ends, Mitchell tells me of another assault on his literary ego. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Henry Miller's magnificent lady-magnet, Henry Valentine, comes in with a bullet at number 3, in FlavorWire.com's top 30 literary pulling lines of all time. Literature to help you get laid 2011-02-11T16:20:58Z

In America, young Samuel Clemens prospected for silver, and cut his literary teeth as a journalist. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z

He lobbed literary spitballs from afar, hoping to catch someone’s attention. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

And in the literary realm it’s unquestionable that refugees, once here, often make major contributions. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Franzen was one of very few literary figures with whom Wallace kept in touch. Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z

The board of the new prize, whose spokesman is literary agent Andrew Kidd, said in a statement that the Booker "now prioritizes a notion of 'readability' over artistic achievement." Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat 2011-10-17T14:41:11Z

We lost one of our greatest literary critics, Frank Kermode, a few months ago. John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z

Then, with the literary chatter behind him, Grisham brings on the hurricane and the real story. John Grisham Returns to Camino Island, This Time in Hurricane Season 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

I had met a literary agent once at a book party that a friend of mine was throwing, and she was pretty much who I was channelling. Jane Curtin Is Playing It Straight 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

They are claiming their stake in the literary world, taking up space, diversifying stories, and finally giving voice to kids like me who never got a chance to see themselves in books. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Yet deeper summertime literary pleasures, too, are one of life’s great joys. What Should Your Kid Read This Summer? Here Are Three to Start With 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Duncan said that sometimes the bolder the departure from cherished literary classics the better. The Return of the Hardy Novel to the Screen 2012-07-13T16:29:16Z

But despite the breadth of his literary interests, Douglas J Hall, from the Churchill War Rooms in London, is adamant that Churchill "was truly a poet at heart". Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side 2013-02-06T20:30:03Z

Along with the National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Awards are among the most prestigious literary prizes in the United States. National Book Critics Circle Names 2021 Award Winners 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Critics praised Mr. Gores’s evocation of Hammett’s literary style and character, as well as his fictional world. Joe Gores, Crime Writer in Dashiell Hammett Mode, Dies at 79 2011-01-14T02:35:11Z

For decades, gay characters and relationships in literary classics were straightwashed on the big screen, whether in “The Maltese Falcon” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” or “Fried Green Tomatoes” and “The Color Purple.” How ‘Nimona’ Helped Its Creator Explore His Emerging Identity 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

More than other literary favorites, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen are cultural stars, celebrities on a first-name basis with the reading public who enjoy robust followings centuries after their deaths. ‘Cult of Celebrity’ exhibition explores similarities between Shakespeare, Austen 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Speaking to promote China's top literary award - the Mao Dun Literature Prize - the authors said modern Chinese literature still does not attract many Western readers despite the country's global economic presence. Chinese writers call for more translations 2011-08-26T10:31:04Z

“Not that he was sober enough to remember,” Mr. Lahr, the theater’s literary manager at the time, recalled. John Lahr’s Biography of Tennessee Williams 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

The comparison is worth making as much for what it reveals about social evolution as in the interests of literary influences and form, as it raises questions about the progressiveness of the female personality itself. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

"This initiative, as well as paying tribute to him seeks to ensure future generations know who this great Colombian, humanist, literary man and democrat was," he said. Colombia to print Garcia Marquez banknotes in tribute to writer 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

There are precedents for actors writing fiction, but do you worry about reactions to a movie star breaking into the literary game? ArtsBeat: Leaning Toward the Light: Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Novel 2012-08-15T15:45:38Z

These days, she finds it all too fitting to think of her life in grandly literary or mythological terms. A Thousand Cuts: inside a chilling documentary on Maria Ressa 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

“That seemed worth slowing my literary career down for.” New Life for a 125-Year-Old Literary Journal 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

He's probably best known outside literary circles for a commencement speech to Syracuse University's class of 2013, whose key message was: "Try to be kinder." George Saunders wins Folio Prize for literature 2014-03-11T13:25:32Z

Like her fellow New Zealander, Adcock is a literary writer in her limpid, apparently artless style and the precise emotional intelligence of her observations. Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock – review 2013-06-28T17:10:01Z

His roughly 10,000-word essay on the poem, published in the most recent issue of the literary journal Parnassus and titled simply “The Red Wheelbarrow,” considers the poem from seemingly every conceivable angle. The Forgotten Man Behind William Carlos Williams’s ‘Red Wheelbarrow’ 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Warren introduced her to David Granger, who became her literary agent in August 2017. ‘The Unwinding of the Miracle’ Is About How to Die — and Live 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

As well as parody accounts such as @DrSamuelJohson, in which the "gouty lexicographer" with a passion for capitalisation fulminates about modern life, Twitter abounds in literary quotations. Ben Jonson begins Twitter travel journal, rather late 2013-07-03T13:51:28Z

Devised as a literary hangout for those who don’t like spoken-word nights or discussion groups, the premise was simple: show up, shut up and read. Ssshhh! How the cult of quiet can change your life 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Her governing ethic is always to pose “literary questions: questions about the way something means, rather than what it means.” What Is Your True ‘Character’? And Who’s to Judge It? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Building a New Narrative A little over a half-century ago Abu Dhabi was a Bedouin village with no literary or scientific traditions to speak of, no urban history. Critic?s Notebook: Building Museums, and a Fresh Arab Identity 2010-11-29T19:10:00Z

“Maybe he was inspired to write his fictional — and rather learned and literary — narrative by the prospect of being a published author at the age of 10,” Ms. Spanier suggested. Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

A little audience participation is also thrown in, as are some historical and literary allusions. Theater Review: In Drag for 90 Years: ‘Vaudevillians’ at Beechman Theater 2013-08-11T21:12:07Z

Masterful in scope and full of rich detail, the first volume on Paul McCartney's post-Beatles career, out Tuesday from Dey Street Books, kicks off the authors' ambitious literary biography series in fine style. "The McCartney Legacy": An in-depth study of Paul's angsty transition from Beatle to solo superstar 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

Now a literary agent, Felicity keeps her sister’s bedside table stacked: Things in Jars by Jess Kidd is currently on top; below is Max Porter’s Lanny. Emily Blunt: 'It's about human beings and how they're affected by a crisis' 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

The children’s magazine held a monthly literary contest that his older sister Marcelline had entered. Hemingway’s First Short Story Found in Key West 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

So many of those earnest projects end up desecrating literary graves, but that’s not the case in “House of Names.” Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

His experience yields perhaps two of the greatest literary responses to prison, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and his neglected masterpiece, De Profundis. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z

A television movie, of all things, that through some convergence of inspired casting, rich production values, and deep but unfussy textual fidelity became the definitive version of a beloved literary classic. 2009-12-25T01:45:00Z

This biographer does not, as one would expect, emerge from the ranks of the English literary world, but from the much smaller province of Afrikaans literature. JM Coetzee's official biography to hit shelves this summer 2013-03-21T16:05:07Z

This three-day gathering will push the limits of a literary festival, with screenings and performances scheduled alongside author talks. What's on This Week Around the World 1462-08-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vargas Llosa set an example that went beyond the literary. Mario Vargas Llosa on Love, Spectacle and Becoming a Legend 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Writers we once thought of as guilty pleasures,” he says, “are being granted literary status.” Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

I think they’re beautiful and important, but there was a real range of literary delights there. Adam Johnson, Inspired by Holograms, Humor and Escape 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

It was partly his anarchic approach to living that inspired them, but just as important was his literary technique. Review | How David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Patti Smith and other musicians fell for William S. Burroughs 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

The Folio Prize is in its first year and hopes to rival the Booker Prize as the English-speaking world's most prestigious literary award. George Saunders wins Folio Prize for literature 2014-03-11T13:25:32Z

After college, he spent time writing for newspapers and, like many Latin American writers, began his literary career abroad, living in Paris, Madrid and London as a young man. Vargas Llosa Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2010-10-07T13:15:00Z

Take away the wall-to-wall literary embellishments, and this is a recognizable story, if not a familiar one. Books of The Times: In Florida Slough With the Gators and Family Ghosts 2011-02-16T23:30:12Z

If you like the combination of violent action, sentimental fantasy, literary pretension and periodic slapstick humor that “Reprisal” offers, you may enjoy it well enough. ‘Reprisal’ Review: A Femme Fatale on the Midnight Train to Revenge 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

That, at least, is the literary and ideological diagnosis that Ms. Portman teases out of the pages of Mr. Oz’s dense and sprawling book. Review: From Natalie Portman, Israel’s Birth Distilled in Mood and Memory 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

After World War II ended, she returned to Rome and edited a literary journal, Mercurio, that published such writers as Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and Alberto Moravia. The Transgressive Power of Alba de Céspedes 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

“He was very revelatory in his first two books. Who wouldn’t want to read this one?” said ­Washington-based literary agent Gail Ross. The Obamas just signed a jumbo book deal. Here’s why a publisher is betting big on them. 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

In their heyday, Sir Stephen and Lady Spender knew everyone in the literary establishment. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

It was held in the largest room in the hotel where the annual literary festival is held, and the room was packed. Angola Prison and the Shadow of Slavery 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Dunn is the author of "Geek Love"--a book that its publisher, Knopf, is promoting as "an unmistakable literary event" akin to the debut of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Katherine Dunn has died; the 'Geek Love' author once took the world by storm 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The author attended Dalton, the private school on the Upper East Side; he studied comparative literature at Columbia and Yale; he impulsively flew to Paris to apprentice under the literary theorist Jacques Derrida. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z

“This extraordinary resource will provide scholars and students with unprecedented insights into Professor Morrison’s remarkable life and her magnificent, influential literary works.” Toni Morrison's Papers to Be Housed at Princeton 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

The unstated model here is not the Oscars or the Emmys, but rather the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s top literary honor. National Book Awards Dinner Reinvents Itself 2012-11-11T22:41:12Z

He clearly relished this closeness, regarding the round of literary festivals and speaking engagements, often a chore for contemporary authors, with undisguised pleasure. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z

Stoner, one critic writes, is the “archetypal literary Everyman.” Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Sublevel, Nelson explains in the news release, “fills a certain void in the literary world … we treat writing as an art among the other arts, and we are concerned with both aesthetics and politics.” CalArts launches L.A.'s newest, nonconformist literary magazine 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

Behind the doors, in pubs, backrooms and pop-up literary "salons", things are swarming, and keeping track of all the events is impossible. On the talent trail at Other Voices 2012 2012-12-06T10:54:00Z

Barstow arrived on the literary scene in 1960 with his first published novel, A Kind of Loving. Stan Barstow obituary 2011-08-01T19:06:48Z

Norman Mailer, the literary tough guy who was covering the convention for The New Republic, was awed by the “Republican princess” and the magnitude of her appeal. AIDS Activist Mary Fisher Is Defined by Words, Not Disease 2012-08-22T21:10:19Z

He’s known in literary circles for compiling something called Nemo’s Almanac, a demonically difficult quiz that requires participants to identify obscure quotations from obscure writers. Alan Hollinghurst?s ?Stranger?s Child? Is a Departure 2011-10-31T21:57:27Z

The early 1990s saw filmmakers wanting to distinguish their work from what they saw as diluted versions of literary horror classics. The Nuts and Bolts of Frankenstein’s Movie Monsters 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

To call her a precursor to Angela Carter is to get as close as possible to an accurate literary comparison, but there's also something uniquely original about her voice. Sisters By a River; Our Spoons Came from Woolworths; The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns – review 2013-07-28T09:30:00Z

But the fantasy of Larkin’s secret paternity in some ways improves on the actual literary succession. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Laura Marsh, The New Republic’s literary editor, noted on Twitter that she did not receive the tote or the hat. Beautiful Merch, Where Are You? 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The characters in “Nathaniel P.” are not modeled on friends or acquaintances, according to Ms. Waldman, which hasn’t stopped a literary parlor guessing game. Encounters : From the Borough of Writerly Types, a Look Inward 2013-08-07T23:30:24Z

A visionary composition on a series of spoken reflections about a literary work — itself full of layered free-association — Gee's intricate, prismatic film might sound as if it must be buried in abstraction. 'Patience (After Sebald)' evolves into its own incredible journey 2012-05-10T20:29:04Z

The two budding literary masters are expected to sit idly by as their husbands appropriate their greatest, most personal works, because that is their place — eclipsed by men even in their own stories. Onscreen, Women Are Giving Patriarchy the Pink Slip 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Karla Nielsen, the library’s curator of literary collections, said the archive reflects how Pynchon, now 85, has approached his career. Thomas Pynchon, Famously Private, Sells His Archive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Welsh author Rachel Trezise won the inaugural Dylan Thomas prize, a £60,000 literary award for work by writers under 30, for her short story collection Fresh Apples. Rachel Trezise's top 10 Welsh underground novels 2010-05-19T07:56:00Z

"Ulysses," which I have read three times, accompanied by a book of annotations by Don Gifford to catch the literary and historical references, is timeless. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

More than 100 literary fans watched Cissy Chandler's ashes arrive at San Diego's Mount Hope Cemetery in a caravan of 1920's-era cars as a Dixieland band played "When the Saints Go Marching In." Reburial brings Raymond Chandler, wife together 2011-02-15T03:00:17Z

Ms. Collins, a former literary agent, thought of the stories. Kathleen Collins’s Short Stories Were Almost Lost to History 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Because Saul Bellow and the influential Philip Rahv had both dismissed “The Breast,” the plan was to rebuff and rebut his critics in a significant literary venue. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

We sense that his private litany of questions, though painful, are far more conducive to his literary growth than the public jousting of the workshop. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

But he went to enormous lengths to shape his literary legacy. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Mitchell, at least, felt his technique could conjure a major literary effect. The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

“Once every so often the literary community picks an older writer up on its shoulders . . . and says, look, look at what this person’s been doing all along. Maybe it’s Silber’s turn.” Joan Silber’s ‘Improvement’ wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

Her Behn is innately quizzical — the Restoration-style prologue outlines the ambiguities of the play’s title — yet she is absolutely set on achieving literary glory. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

We see her promoting literary events and art walks that attract major media attention; more importantly, we see her pounding the pavement to make them happen. Unlike the shows that came before it, "Insecure" has always been about hustling one's way to success 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, far too many accomplished novelists retreat behind the ramparts of historical fiction, the literary equivalent of TV costume drama. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z

When Plath wasn’t banging on about Hughes’s virility, “his health and hugeness,” she waxed ecstatic about the pleasures of “domesticalia” and of serving as Hughes’s amanuensis and literary agent. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Two literary giants loomed over the crowd at Symphony Space on Wednesday night, and I don’t mean that metaphorically. ArtsBeat: Live From Canada, It’s Alice Munro 2014-01-23T22:11:22Z

After his show closed, Mr. Lawrence briefly visited the city of Ibadan, meeting with local artists — particularly with members of the Mbari Artists and Writers Club, publishers of the influential literary magazine, Black Orpheus. A Tribute to Black Artists Could Signal a Change for Museums 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

There is music, dancing, and Iran's beloved literary art form, poetry. On Shab-e Yalda, red fruit and fortune-telling rule the night 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

The Prix Goncourt is France's leading literary prize. Book news: Prix Goncourt, book skills and 'Julie of the Wolves' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

The consensus was that Leeds is consistently under-represented and a central Leeds festival could change this by blowing Leeds' huge literary trumpet and celebrate the city's rich heritage. Tony Harrison to headline Leeds literature festival the Big Bookend 2013-04-12T07:00:05Z

But, paradoxically, it became more akin to a classic literary supplement, except that supplements do not allow readers to comment. Book Talk: Slovenia's Feri Lainscek on Facebook writing 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

What I found was a newly energized city rich not only with jovial cheer, but also an abundance of artisan offerings and a creative, literary spirit. Christmas in Dublin: Good Cheer and Great Deals 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

He didn’t mind the “deadline energy” of his kamikaze literary endeavor, which was motivated by a desire to launch the book before the election. Pete Buttigieg Dropped Out of the Presidential Race and Wrote a Best Seller 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

The Sea Inside also describes artistic and literary figures, scientists and adventurers whose lives have left traces in the spots that Hoare visits on his quest. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z

His output was split in half between science and "mainstream" – he seems to have turned to literary fiction in disappointment after his early SF novels were rejected. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-14T06:28:54Z

Thomas pulled a glittering array of other literary celebrities into his orbit as he made his unsteady way across the country. A Dylan Thomas Centennial in New York 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

That wasn’t, however, the prevailing conventional opinion, especially given the fact that not all that many members of the literary community had much direct experience of it. David Foster Wallace and the Perils of “Litchat” 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Michael Bond, the creator of children's literary character Paddington Bear, died on Tuesday aged 91 following a short illness, publisher HarperCollins said. Paddington Bear creator Michael Bond dies aged 91 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

"The NYT has long made it clear that they value literary fiction and disdain commercial fiction – and they disparage it regardless of race or gender of the author," said the author. Jodi Picoult attacks favouritism towards 'white male literary darlings' 2010-08-20T14:44:00Z

Around the time Robert Aaron Long was being arrested south of Atlanta in connection with the killings of eight people, including six Asian women, I was on Zoom for a literary prize ceremony. Perspective | I’ve experienced anti-Asian harassment and written it into my novels. I’m not ready to move on. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Rutkow is a graceful writer with a penchant for well-placed classical allusions, yet he possesses a distracting literary tic: a heavy reliance on the adverb “finally,” which occasionally occurs twice on the same page. The Utopian Quest to Link the United States and Latin America 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

He writes better movie criticism than most movie critics, better theatre criticism than most theatre critics and better literary criticism than just about anyone. Waiting for the Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn – review 2013-01-06T00:08:39Z

As a career-launcher for Stoppard, though, it remains astonishing — a youthful prank bursting with theatrical mischief and literary flair. ‘Rosencrantz’ review: Clever hybrid stager, thy name is Posner 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

“The rapture with which this novel has been received,” Mr. Wood told Vanity Fair, “is further proof of the infantilization of our literary culture: a world in which adults go around reading ‘Harry Potter.’ ” Book Review: ‘Magician’s Land’ Ends Lev Grossman’s Trilogy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

It recycles from his earlier film Good Will Hunting the story of a wayward teenage genius nurtured by an older mentor, only this time the boy’s talents are literary, not mathematical. From Sean Connery to Harrison Ford: actors who secretly played roles gay 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Handy’s readings of certain texts can also be mystifying — and similarly garnished with literary pretensions. A Personal, Breezy Tour of Classic Children’s Books 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

His literary treatments are appropriately fleet-footed; he hops from text to text, never alighting on any one for very long. Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

"Fierce reader" probably captures the distinction of Kermode's achievement more accurately than "great literary critic", a compliment which would, probably, have elicited from him a slightly contemptuous shrug, if not a shudder. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z

And the worst word you can use is 'literary'. Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z

Bourdain’s repeated signaling of the “authenticity” problem echoes an argument made in the 1970s by literary critic Lionel Trillling regarding the rise of “authenticity” as the measure of moral fitness in public life. The kimchi revolution: How Korean-American chefs are changing food culture 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z

A film this rich emits all kinds of literary and cinematic reverberations. 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z

Anna is both a fan and a gentle kindred spirit, at least as far as literary taste is concerned, and the possibility of romance flickers between them. Review: Melissa McCarthy Is Criminally Good in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

“The Street” is my favorite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot. Tayari Jones: In Praise of Ann Petry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

Wylie is well known in the literary world for his clout and extensive list of clients, among them writers like Martin Amis, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Miranda July and Elizabeth Gilbert. Dispute Erupts Over Translation Rights to New Nobel Laureate 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

London, with its cosmopolitan energy, urban memory, cultural openness, literary traditions, gender equality and freedom of expression, was everything I could not find in Istanbul. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Soon, they had a dedicated group of literary translators — who often spend years working on books for small academic presses — speed translating essays, poems and wartime dispatches. An urgent mission for literary translators: Bringing Ukrainian voices to the West 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Other famous literary names published in the London version of the Strand included HG Wells, Somerset Maugham, GK Chesterton and PG Wodehouse, who contributed 150 stories over a period of 30 years. Unseen Joseph Heller story out this week 2013-07-22T14:19:31Z

He leaves hillbilly country for Asheville, N.C., where he marches into the office of the Asheville Southern Journal, a leading literary magazine where Cusack’s character, Alice, is the formidable editorial gatekeeper. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

And, just by the way, might an epidemiological study finally prove that the best predictor of future masterpieces, as opposed to current literary production, is a decent library within walking distance of school? Critic at Large David Kipen on El Segundo in literature 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Targoff proves herself as good a popular historian as she is a literary critic. Who Was Vittoria Colonna? Just One of Italy’s Great Poets... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

She and Jones helped found the New York Poets Theatre, a leading avant-garde venue in the early ’60s, and co-edited the literary newsletter The Floating Bear. Diane di Prima, Beat poet and activist, dead at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

This year’s lineup is a convocation of Mr. Iyer’s broader network, one that stretches from chamber music to free improvisation to literary activism. Just the Right Time for a ‘Nondenominatlonal Leader’ in Music 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

As a bookworm growing up in a poor neighborhood in Jackson, Ms. Thomas didn’t have many literary role models. New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

An exciting development over the past few years is that many of the tools that scholars use to plumb the depths of literary usage are now publicly available online. ArtsBeat: Exposing Literary Style, One Word at a Time 2011-07-29T19:31:25Z

In another essay he considers the effects his generation — the so-called Latin American Boom writers — had on the literary world. A Pulpy New Novel and Juiceless Old Essays From Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

He wants to return home a literary champion, someone who is impossible to ignore. Review: Knausgaard Becomes a Writer in a Sick, Crooked World 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Folks listen to me speak, at literary festivals, on panels, at conferences, in bookstores, and while I am speaking, naming myself queer, they might interrupt. Don’t get used to it: Queer literature in a time of triumph 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

Before she decided to revisit the manuscript a few years ago, one literary agent passed, viewing Abrams as a writer solely of romance. And in her spare time, Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

Listen to Our Podcast: Top authors and critics join the Book Review Podcast to talk about what's going on in the literary world. Letters to the Editor From Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall, and Others 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

A decade after publishing her last fiction, Ruth Ozeki emerges with a terrific new novel full of breakthroughs both personal and literary. ‘A Tale for the Time Being’: 2 lives on opposite coasts 2013-03-14T20:59:36Z

There is, I know, the danger of reenacting some kind of ridiculous literary version of the hysteria over Jeremy Meeks, whose mug shot turned him into an Internet sensation. Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

In fact, it combines the two aspects of Clare, the self-aware and well-read literary artist, and the intensely local and watchful nature-poet. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z

His writing stands out as startlingly original in a world that often feels crammed with literary replication. A cheater’s guide to everything 2012-09-10T19:49:00Z

A complete list of nominees is available on the Booktrust literary charity's official . Walliams picture book up for prize 2014-03-27T17:36:18Z

For all his literary success, he was always broke and rumpled. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

The two upcoming novels – Agents of Chaos and Devil’s Advocate – will be part of a new literary series: The X-Files Origins, according to Entertainment Weekly. New X-Files book series will give Mulder and Scully origin stories 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

He rightly disparages the abstruse theorising of academics who use literary works to prosecute their grudges about colonialism or the politics of gender. Horace and Me by Harry Eyres – revew 2013-07-07T09:00:00Z

More widely, Thatcher's conviction politics had a literary and cultural dividend that was completely unintended. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z

Other publishers, such as those of racier versions of literary classics such as "Jane Eyre", and "Sherlock Holmes", say the link is less transparent. "Fifty Shades of Grey" sparks marketing mania 2012-09-27T22:15:54Z

By all laws of literary physics, this memoir shouldn’t work at all. It’s the End of Marriage as They Know It and They Feel Fine 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

There’s something endlessly fascinating in the way Tuck’s interest in literary relationships extends even to the works in her own oeuvre. ‘Wuthering Heights’ Reimagined as a 1960s Affair 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

To me, being a literary agent is the best job in the business - you get to do everything. Top 10 tips for being a literary agent 2014-05-10T00:21:16Z

He felt at peace among the prairie lights of its university towns, which nourished his literary genius before his death in 2008, at age 46. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

But the doctor’s wife wryly compares Jesus’s crucifixion to one of Hercule Poirot’s murder mysteries, suggesting that the real meaning of the Gospels — a marrying of reason and faith — is found only in literary interpretation. Yann Martel’s ‘The High Mountains of Portugal’ is his best since ‘Life of Pi’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s like, “Guys, we’ve all made a lot of money doing science fiction. Let’s take casual science-fiction fans who don’t know the literary underpinnings of the source materials and let’s draw those roots back.” James Cameron on Science Fiction, ‘Avatar’ and the Challenges of a ‘Terminator’ Reboot 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

In this column our literary matchmaker Nicole Lamy scans her shelves to help voracious readers decide what book to pick up next. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

As a member of the New England literary world he cut a graceless figure and had an inauspicious professional start. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

In one video from Feb. 26, acclaimed Ukrainian novelist and poet Serhiy Zhadan gave a tour of the Kharkiv literary museum, which became a makeshift bomb shelter as Russian forces targeted the city. An urgent mission for literary translators: Bringing Ukrainian voices to the West 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Named by the Times as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945, his first novel, 1984's The Wasp Factory, established him as a fresh and remarkable voice in literary fiction. Live webchat: Iain Banks 2011-07-06T12:27:00Z

Sometimes literary journals or editors of collections asked me for a story, and I’d send one. This Week in Fiction: Elizabeth Harrower 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

This spring, she delivered a new manuscript titled “Scribbler Moon” to Future Library, a literary art project in Norway that will collect 100 texts over the next century, and publish them in 2114. Margaret Atwood, Digital Deep-Diver, Writes ‘The Heart Goes Last’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

This question is more familiar in the literary world. Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Uniquely among her younger relatives, it seems, Caroline actively shared both Austen's literary and musical interests. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

Candidates are put forward by a mix of Swedish Academy members and international literary figures. Haruki Murakami leads race for Nobel prize for literature 2012-08-23T15:20:49Z

In 1995, Vargas Llosa won the Cervantes Prize, the most distinguished literary honor in Spanish. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z

Wilding contacted Alvarez and Philip S. Palmer, the head curator of the Morgan Library’s department of literary and historical manuscripts, telling them the answer was there. A Watermark, and ‘Spidey Sense,’ Unmask a Forged Galileo Treasure 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

Publishers Weekly made “The Nightingale” one of its top 10 literary fiction picks for the spring, and Amazon named it a top book for February. Kristin Hannah’s inspirations for WWII tale ‘The Nightingale’ 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The Force of Destiny was written in the middle years of the composer's career, and founded on a Spanish play by the Duke of Rivas that is the epitome of literary romanticism. La Forza del Destino 2010-07-28T20:29:00Z

The culture is Vietnamese, the literary influence is the Chinese classic “A Dream of Red Mansions,” and the whole thing is very ambitious. Review | Desert-island books: Science fiction tales set in isolation that feel just right now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

He’s stewing in unresolved issues with his father, a renowned literary critic who hasn’t called him in 15 years. ‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Better Call Solecism 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Those biographical dives explore favorite “Know Your Enemy” themes of mentorship and friendship, conversions and trajectories, with a rich sense of psychology and literary surprise. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

As for their literary quality, the stories get better, and by the time we get to "Rumpole and the Way Through the Woods" we are reading something far richer and darker than broad caricature. Forever Rumpole by John Mortimer – review 2013-02-05T07:00:06Z

He patronizingly describes Hauptmann as “an outstanding literary secretary” and claims that she “always acknowledged that Brecht was the presiding genius.” Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht

The show, “Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will,” is to include literary manuscripts, letters and rare printed books from the Morgan’s collection, along with personal artifacts, drawings and photographs from the Parsonage. A Brontë Exhibition, Complete With a ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

At another point, in the early 1970s, he turned to religion – not as a believer, but a literary critic – examining Bible stories using state-of-the-art narratology, many of whose techniques he had himself patented. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z

The literary historian P. Gabrielle Foreman founded the Colored Conventions Project, a digital initiative that documents Black organizing efforts between 1830 and the 1890s. MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

There is one literary event to tout, a worthy inoculation against another 10 days of relentless Christmas music. ‘Short Stories Live’ brings a Christmas twist to Town Hall 2012-12-13T22:06:46Z

Gulli has made a name for himself ferreting out literary discoveries. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

All this suggests that someone in the kitchen has a literary turn of mind. Smoke in the Mexican Food and Fire in the Mezcal 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

It was a strange and endearing habit, one that showed a disregard for the literary world’s affectations. Why Brazil’s Greatest Writer Stopped Writing 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

As Mr. Handke’s award was condemned in some corners, many in the literary world celebrated the news about Ms. Tokarczuk, an experimental novelist and poet from Poland who is beloved by readers and critics. Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

In the Sunday Times, Frances Wilson wrote: "In the present literary climate of dumbed-down, throwaway narratives, to be handed a story as durable and exquisitely crafted as this is a rare pleasure . . . a masterpiece." Edmund de Waal 2011-02-12T11:38:27Z

If there’s any solace at the end of summer in the Washington area, it’s Fall for the Book, a week-long literary festival that will begin Sunday. Diana Gabaldon, Tim O’Brien and others at the Fall for the Book festival 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

In “Once Upon a Time” she draws together her research, touching on anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary analysis and an expansive history. Enchanted, I’m sure 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Instead, Reynolds uses his considerable literary skills to create a book that will deeply resonate with teens who will find lots to think about and discuss. Perspective | Five new books for your teenager’s summer reading pile 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Here in the UK, we may question why Japanese animators are more engaged with our rich literary heritage than the domestic film industry seems to be. 'A full English every morning': how UK food and weather inspires Japanese anime directors 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

I was never a fan of Yann Martel’s book; the ending felt too much like a literary cheat and a disappointment. Mary Pols’ Top 10 Movies of 2012 2012-12-20T14:00:34Z

Other award categories include literary science writing; literary sports writing; and picture book writing. PEN Announces Shortlists for 2014 Book Prizes 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

But the discussion certainly throws into high relief the precarious position of literary figures in contemporary China. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z

As VIDA, a women’s literary organization, showed in February in its second annual statistical roundup, women get shockingly short shrift as reviewers and reviewees in most prestigious publications. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But are both literary editors and their bosses in thrall to the idea of the "star reviewer", created by steady accretion of high-profile reviews, eventually leading to the figure of the "man of letters"? Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

The humorist and social commentator says her ideal literary dinner party is one that nobody is invited to: “My idea of a great literary dinner party is Fran, eating alone, reading a book.” Fran Lebowitz: By the Book 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Shepherd has played off the work of a literary giant before. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z

Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. My Five Things: Luis Alberto Urrea 2011-12-06T18:09:42Z

The birth of the gothic and romantic tendencies in literary culture, however, saw a less gruesome attitude adopted. Witches fly high in major summer show 2013-03-22T13:00:59Z

But Rimington said literary critics who knock the Booker are being "pathetic." Julian Barnes leads Booker Prize finalists 2011-10-18T11:01:07Z

Turner’s literary chronicler, Thomas Gray, and the simple jailer are both played by Joe Carlson, who seems like two distinct people despite barely adjusting his costume. Review | Nat Turner play at Forum Theatre gives the rebel the high ground 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Dear Leader”, which includes three personal poems, is a testament to Mr Jang’s literary flair. Binding minds 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z

“The picture slides from my mind, slippery as wet spaghetti,” Zoe exclaims at one point, which is a simile with as much literary merit as wet spaghetti. Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

And owning a tower — a castle, if you like – would satisfy what the literary critic T. R. Henn referred to as Yeats’s desire for “cultivated aristocracy.” The Tower That Enchanted Yeats 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

And it dawns on you that Price, like Conrad, could go from literary setting to rough-hewn reality, then emerge with an allegory of the experience. How Richard Price does it: New York dialogue, only better 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

An unusual article appeared in April on the website of The Believer, a literary magazine known for publishing writers like Nick Hornby and Zadie Smith. The Believer, a Beloved Literary Magazine, Goes Home After a Risqué Detour 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

When "An Ideal Husband" opened in 1895, Wilde was the literary toast of London, with an elegant, admired wife, Constance, and two young sons. Into the Wilde with Taproot's 'Ideal Husband' 2011-10-03T18:07:04Z

One of the lessons of literary biography is how egotistical, obnoxious and inadequate many “great” writers are. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

While describing his writing process and sources of inspiration, he dropped in bits of literary trivia and issued pronouncements about writers he admires. ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

It's a question worth asking when literary period movies are being churned out: we've recently been inundated with Dickens, Austen and Brontë, not to mention another Anna Karenina. Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z

I first encountered Conrad Aiken in the 1920s literary magazine the Dial, hunched over a machine reading microfilm in the New York Public Library. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Hitchens saw Christianity as little more than a social virus with interesting literary overtones. The Fantasy of the Deathbed Conversion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

It was a minor stumbling block at the start of a long literary career. Novelist Helprin spins a good yarn in life and art 2012-10-03T19:06:52Z

With the heft of a 10-hour mini-series or a literary doorstop, this Oscar nominee for best documentary feature — narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, speaking words taken entirely from Baldwin’s pages — is “life-altering,” Mr. Scott added. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ and ‘Victorian Slum House’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The book received ecstatic reviews when it was released in 2015, and sales were decent for a literary debut, at around 30,000 copies. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Power, a literary critic in London, surely must have been thinking of Graham Greene’s “The Third Man” when he wrote this elegant suspense novel. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

People take their pleasures and endure their sufferings with a plausibility that puts to shame a good deal of self-proclaimed literary fiction. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z

The development of Poets Corner further underscored the literary nature of the Abbey experience. Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy - review 2011-01-15T00:05:50Z

And she doesn’t limit herself to a single medium: She creates video essays that are distinctly literary, uses comics for serious nonfiction, and turns to illustration when words won’t do.  Faces to watch: Remember these authors and their books 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

“The stranger within was a literary concept. A Freudian concept — the unconscious. But now it was science. And now it was Phil.” Fiona Maazel's 'A Little More Human' is like Pynchon writing a telenovela 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

It was the work that converted those who had found the plays in the first phase of his career – Rosencrantz, Jumpers, Travesties – too coldly intellectual in their spinning-off from literary, philosophical or political history. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z

In the nineteenth century, arguments raged around a figure who made his name in the musical sphere but who also claimed literary significance. Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Even little New Yorkers who can’t yet read are often familiar with at least two literary lions: Patience and Fortitude, the imposing marble statues at the entrance to the library’s main building on Fifth Avenue. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

In Week 1211, inspired by, oh, I don’t know, we asked for disparaging tweets of celebrated historical or literary figures. Style Invitational Week 1215: A so-so contest (How so-so was it?) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Therefore, most of my exposure to what’s going on in literary circles is online, and my attention to it is erratic. This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on Reluctantly Writing Fiction About an M.F.A. Writing Program 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

Though Seattle's literary season is winding down, it's finishing strong. Lit Life: Jess Walter is a busy man; Ann Rule wins a Thriller 2012-05-18T19:40:04Z

It is already a best seller in his native Sweden, where it won the August Prize, the country’s most prestigious literary award. Why a ‘Strange and Nerdy’ Book About Eels Is Making Waves 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z

They would return to their own paths that would not cross again for 20 years, though Mr. Ruhlman, now 53, continued to maintain what he called “a literary crush” on Ms. Hood, now 60. For Two Writers, the Road Not Taken Beckons Anew 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Your Lit Life correspondent has cleaned out the digital cupboards and discovered all manner of worthy literary news items. Book briefs: news about Seattle authors, librarians, publishers and readings 2011-02-11T23:25:09Z

At the height of the furore, Hegemann was the focus of a campaign spearheaded by German literary giant Günter Grass to protect writers' intellectual copyright. Helene Hegemann: 'There's no such thing as originality, just authenticity' 2012-06-23T23:05:24Z

He was one of the most resourceful and colourful characters of the London literary scene. John Rety obituary 2010-03-18T18:22:00Z

There may be a shift in the literary atmosphere, he continued, but "climate change is very slow, and this is no exception." Could Miles Franklin turn the Booker prize to crime? 2010-06-25T12:21:00Z

Thanks to literary television shows such as Bernard Pivot’s "Apostrophes" and "Bouillon de Culture," Semprún became a household name in France. Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Those very Texan of adjectives apply to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, with the world's first photograph, a Gutenberg Bible, and 36 million literary manuscripts. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z

Needless to say, you get judged when your literary choices don’t measure up. New & Noteworthy, From John Sayles to Julius Caesar 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

“It seems to me that, as a result of their profound belief in each other’s literary abilities, my parents are as married in death as they once were in life.” Sylvia Plath’s Letters Reveal a Writer Split in Two 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

For 25 years Ellis has provoked wildly mixed reviews – on balance more bad than good – and has never won a major literary prize. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z

Prefer to hear about from the rising stars of the literary world? 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Through a pastor friend, they met Joel Kneedler, an agent with Alive Communications, a Christian literary agency in Colorado Springs. Boy?s Tale of Heaven Is Publishing Phenomenon 2011-03-11T12:25:34Z

Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse,” published in 1927, is the exhibition’s most significant literary reference. 2 Literary Greats, in Art Galleries by the Sea 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Moment of truth? I’m not sure if my modest literary accomplishments would constitute “making it” in the mind of my ambitious former self. Did I make it? 2012-11-18T17:01:00Z

Being that this is New York, there are likely any number of literary readings going on across the city. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Wolff's claims of "cancellation" were disputed both by Mailer's literary agent and, according to the New York Times, Random House. Reports of Norman Mailer’s cancellation have been greatly exaggerated 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

For someone who used to think that he had met every reader of his work, the literary recognition has been gratifying. Ian Parker: The Real Life of Edward St. Aubyn 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

It will also include a new daytime chat series for BBC Two, My Life In Books, in which Anne Robinson will discuss the literary loves of a number of guests. BBC finishes Dickens's Drood book 2011-01-25T12:55:20Z

Again, the literary language simplifies and softens the tough and unyielding set of terms, like “treatment,” used by Freud. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

This literary thriller unfolds over three dramatic days in the summer of 1936 as a mother searches for her missing 3-year-old daughter in a depressed Tennessee town threatened by a flood. The top 50 fiction books for 2014

The eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton has a more radical suggestion. Do you hate football and want to help the poor? Take up gambling 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

The occasion was brainier, if less glamorous, than a 007 premiere: the 50th anniversary of The New York Review of Books, the literary institution that began during a citywide newspaper strike in 1963. ArtsBeat: Old Friends Help New York Review Celebrate 50 Years 2013-02-06T18:26:41Z

Patterson “grew up being a little literary snob” who matured into knowing his limits. James Patterson Would Like You to Read 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Piepenbring, a young editor at the august literary journal the Paris Review, and a lifelong fan, had made the shortlist. Review | ‘The Beautiful Ones’ isn’t the memoir Prince envisioned, but it’s a moving look at the singer’s life 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

This album features many literary illusions and influences. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

Pollan’s literary persona has a rare, almost Thoreauvian affect: the lovable scold. Michael Pollan Drops Acid — and Comes Back From His Trip Convinced 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

This is an author who knows how to set and keep a fast pace, who understands that beneath all our poses of literary sophistication, most of us still want a rich, engaging story. Isabel Allende’s ‘The Japanese Lover’: A tale of history and romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Beginning as a poet who worked closely with the late Joseph Brodsky, she completed a master’s degree in art history at the prestigious Courtauld Institute in London before turning to literary fiction. Review | Reading Nicole Krauss’s ‘To Be a Man’ feels like talking all night with a brilliant friend 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Ciment, 62, has published five literary novels, including “Act of God” and “Heroic Measures.” ‘The Hand That Feeds You,’ a Thriller Written as an Act of Love for Its Originator 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

From the first, Chandler resolved to gild the tawdry genre with literary luster. ‘The World of Raymond Chandler,’ Edited by Barry Day 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Or is it a literary work along the lines of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, where the change of wording will be seen as sacrilegious and artistically offensive? My agnostic AA 2012-06-20T18:28:00Z

If Batman has become an Idea as much as Character — an invention that engages “our darkest selves” — then Weldon is a well-suited detective to illuminate these darkest literary places. Holy longevity, Batman! This crusader has staying power. 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Gautier Stephane/Sagaphoto.com/Alamy Our experiment in literary democracy is about to end. Not the Booker prize: Judgment day 2010-10-11T09:08:00Z

“Homo Sapienne” was nominated for a Politiken literary award and the Nordic Council Literature Prize, though it did not win either. The Young Queer Writer Who Became Greenland’s Unlikely Literary Star 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Mr. Williams’s gifts were spotted by major literary figures well before he was able to make a living off them. Miller Williams, Plain-Spoken Arkansas Poet, Dies at 84 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Most of the letters, though, are more literary life than private life – and they are the more fascinating. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

But though this wave of prominent authors helped the women who followed, as time passed it seemed harder for literary women to go the distance. Essay: ‘The Second Shelf’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

“He’s really literary and extremely well read, so he’s not a film person or TV writer who thought, ‘I’ll write a novel; how hard could it be?’” Conquering TV With ‘Mad Men.’ Now Matthew Weiner Publishes a Novel. 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Dirda originally described the essays, with characteristic deprecation, as “just me, maundering on about this and that, usually with a literary theme lurking somewhere.” Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

That outlook is reflected in the literature — and Vietnam was a very literary war, producing an immense library of fiction and nonfiction. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Werner, 30, is the director of membership at PEN America, an organization in Manhattan that works to advance literature, defend free expression and foster international literary fellowship. Rebecca Stump, Justin Werner II 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

Alongside iconic literary figures, it surfaces lesser-known writers and interrogates why their work went missing. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

But that is where the brother’s literary similarities end. Nathaniel and Simon: The Brothers Rich 2013-01-04T21:32:05Z

PORTER: Dead parents, dead poets, stubborn dislike of algorithmic thinking about literary genres. Don’t call Emma Cline’s book “luminous”: The word “seems only used to describe writing by women” 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

That surely has nothing to do with the story but you can not tell until you finish it because none of the significant things are going to have any literary signs marking them. Hemingway's Hidden Metafictions in "The Sun Also Rises" 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

In 1922, Berlin was the literary capital of the Russian émigré community. The Love Letters That Spoke of Everything but Love 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

There is, it should be noted, something of a literary controversy around the film. Sundance 2015: In 'End of the Tour,' David Foster Wallace, explained 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

But his Black persona has been such a success that he looks increasingly like the Superman to Mr. Banville’s more literary Clark Kent. Books of The Times: Two Refreshing Splashes of Summertime Homicide 2011-07-03T21:37:35Z

“Writers Writing Dying” is a solid addition to Mr. Williams’s house of verse, and in it he pays his respects to literary ancestors. Books of The Times: Poems on Mortality by C. K. Williams and Cynthia Cruz 2012-12-31T19:22:03Z

He’s obviously a man of fine literary discernment since these are two of my own favorite novels. Review | Miss going to the bookstore? Here are some books about books to help get you through. 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

“The Medici” highlights these literary accomplishments in detail, as well as the story of how the Medici became the Renaissance’s most influential family. A Literary Tour of Italy’s Libraries 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

Nor is he shy about discussing his favorite literary style: modernist experimental and its exponents. Review | A look at the life-saving power of essays 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Joyce’s art was as much a product of these everyday encounters as it was of his literary erudition; that’s often how it is with the best writers. Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

That novel was published when Rhys was 76, after the literary world had largely forgotten her. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

To me, it felt like a difficult example of when a woman has to pass herself off in literary circles as a man in order to be taken seriously as an artist. Shirley Manson has outlived the haters: “The business got very fat and lazy and was full of people who didn’t even care about music” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pacheco was a literary lion who won numerous awards in Latin America. José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican Author, Dies at 74 2014-01-28T04:40:46Z

Instead of literary writing, Harbach garnishes his work with the type of language that feels sophisticated. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z

This is a literary problem, a pictorial problem, a cinematic problem. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z

While the stylistic similarity between the other literary families analyzed might be attributed to collaboration, Mary Shelley never knew her mother as she died 10 days after Mary was born. The Brontës, Shelleys & Kingsley and Martin Amis: Research suggests relatives share writing styles 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

He nonetheless returned in the 1940s, after the success of “The Grapes of Wrath” assured him an honored place in the city’s literary pantheon. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

She ushers in “a literary friend of mine” to catch the vague aroma of anti-Semitism there. In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Alice Kessler-Harris, author of the 2012 “A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman,” notes that literary critic and liberal activist Irving Howe used to spit when he spoke of Hellman. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Square Books, on Oxford’s downtown square, prominently features the works of the state’s living writers and also tends to its literary ghosts. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

If you’re fretting over a last-minute gift for someone who loves books, literature and literary history — well, your worries are over. Q&A: Tom Nissley on his ‘A Reader’s Book of Days’ 2013-12-13T21:47:59Z

“A Passage to India” is so paramount in Galgut’s mind that Forster’s literary journalism and political advocacy get little play in “Arctic Summer.” Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

James Fenton, an English poet and literary critic, longtime contributor to The Review and friend of Mr. Buruma’s, said he believed the editor was unhappy about leaving. New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Mention Iowa in literary circles and what comes up is not farming, but the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

I’m making the rounds at a small gathering of urban literary types in a bougie brownstone in Brooklyn, New York. My secret sex-work past 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

You can demystify the processes behind literary fame, but the act of reading itself remains slightly mystical. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

While stories are presented in chronological order by publication date, the recurring themes become so visible that they create a form for this collection and denote Coover’s literary trajectory. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Times recognized Bukowski as "the literary scene's most celebrated dirty old man." Celebrating Charles Bukowski, 'poet laureate of L.A. lowlife' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Defending novels in Northanger Abbey, Austen declared that this was the literary form in which "the greatest powers of the mind" were exhibited, and her own achievement justifies that brazen claim. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z

While the food is delicious — I had a way-better-than-average Cobb salad — you really go to this restaurant, located in the Algonquin’s lobby, to commune with literary spirits past. Soaking up literary history: A book-lover’s barhopping guide 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

In fact, he is known as such a serial dater that his younger sister, the literary agent Anna Stein, once scolded him for it. Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z

In any case, Halsted's story doesn't require a lot of literary flair to lend it power and pathos. An Anatomy of Addiction: When Two Brilliant Minds Met a "Miracle Drug" 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z

Coming from the world of experimental theater, Hannaham, who co-founded the New York performance group Elevator Repair Service, suggested that he has been disappointed by the staid tone of many literary novels. James Hannaham wins $15,000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

They are currently en famille, at a very agreeable writer's retreat in Greece, presided over by Patrick, an expatriate literary lion played in cameo by the cinematographer Walter Lassally. Before Midnight – review 2013-06-20T14:29:02Z

Enright’s renderings of her movies have the pitch perfection of Joyce’s parodies of literary masters in “Ulysses.” An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Together, these literary choices mirror our collective mood. What the country is reading during the pandemic: Dystopias, social justice and steamy romance 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Henry Bech novels chronicled a literary star who wins every prize in the book, except the Nobel — just like Updike. ‘Updike’: Prolific writer lived a life full of contradictions 2014-04-09T19:38:35Z

Finder’s innocent-man-on-the run tale is the literary equivalent of a popcorn movie. Lies, leaks and threats to our liberties: A new thriller captures the moment 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

There’s no equivalent of the Brooklyn literary scene, which I imagine can be quite exhausting if you’re a writer in New York City. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

She’s never been part of the London literary establishment and seems to prefer the company of her long-dead characters to the demands of being a public figure. For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

“I Spit” made Vian famous, though it’s fair to say that literary merit wasn’t the main factor in the book’s success. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

It is the most prized literary award of all, an accolade that honours a writer's entire body of work and pits all living fiction authors writing in the English language against each other. Man Booker Prize: Amelia Hill on the 'Olympics of literature' 2011-03-30T06:00:05Z

The prize, based in Thomas's birthplace of Swansea, is one of the largest literary cash awards in the world. US writer claims Dylan Thomas Prize 2013-11-07T22:11:28Z

In effect, the account of the hunt is also a manifesto of sorts, as when Kandisky further engages Hemingway in exactly the sort of literary theorizing that the author both distrusts and enjoys. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Its assertion that "a work of art is a gift not a commodity" raises some profound, and important questions about the nature of the literary transaction. The great book giveaway 2011-01-17T15:00:01Z

Mr. Lord was a fledgling Manhattan literary agent in 1952 when, by his account, Kerouac walked timidly into his office, a basement studio on East 36th Street, just off Park Avenue. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

Based at Edinburgh University, The James Tait Black Prizes were established in 1919 and are the oldest literary prizes in Britain. Bradley Manning play scoops British drama award 2013-08-06T12:43:17Z

In one of his first posts he updated a century-old rejection note to reflect the tired ideas seen in the submissions to today's literary magazines. Electric Literature admits it's an online powerhouse, revamps 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

But Fforde's best-known books are those starring literary detective Thursday Next. 'The Woman Who Died a Lot': the new adventures of Thursday Next 2012-10-11T20:04:04Z

TS Eliot, author of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which inspired the musical, left his literary estate to Faber. Withdrawal of Poetry Book Society funding sparks outcry 2011-04-04T14:48:48Z

Comparing movies with their literary sources isn’t always useful, but it’s instructive that while the book validates Q’s ordinariness, the movie tries to obscure it. Review: ‘Paper Towns’ Tries to Fold Significance Into the Everyday 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

And in case readers don't get the point being made, he adds: "Franzen is a member of another perennially threatened species, the American literary novelist." A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z

“A biographer wants his story to be not only interesting but literarily valuable,” Wallace wrote. ArtsBeat: David Foster Wallace, Self-Help Reader 2011-04-11T19:20:13Z

The state is setting aside funds for literary translation, official ministries are supporting the cinema, international organisations are investing in enormous cultural projects and haute couture companies are opening art galleries. Literature does not stop at national borders 2013-02-27T13:59:46Z

He was nevertheless honored in 2014 with the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, for his life’s work. Juan Goytisolo, Audacious Spanish Novelist, Is Dead at 86 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Schumann as Inspired by Goethe’s Timeless Tale As a bookish young man born to a literary household, thought seriously of becoming a writer. | 'Faust': Botstein?s American Symphony in Schumann?s ?Faust? 2010-04-11T21:16:00Z

The 140 items that will be shown at the Morgan were selected in partnership with several of the museum’s curators, including, most recently, Christine Nelson, a curator of literary and historical manuscripts. A Childhood Hobby Matures Into a World-Class Collection 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Yet rather than documenting works-in-progress, or literary musings, the diaries dwell on William's most intimate worries and encounters, with a raw emphasis on the sexual, flagged by the term "the nightingales sang". The strange allure of Tennessee Williams's Notebooks 2011-03-25T11:20:11Z

Mr. Bauman, 33, is a senior vice president for literary affairs, in New York, at 20th Century Fox; he finds literary properties for the studio to acquire for film. Lauren Kuhn, Alexander Bauman 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

Leaning across his kitchen counter, which doubles as his desk, he points out the stickers of his contact information and the covers of his namesake literary anthology — Freeman’s. John Freeman, the editor behind lauded literary journal Freeman's 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

After Ben Okri was awarded the Booker, several senior publishers, including the former Virago editor Liz Calder, addressed the problem of a literary prize that appeared to exclude women. How prize that used to be Orange was saved – and rebranded 2012-10-13T14:41:27Z

The book is not limited to stories of literary fame, though that is its preferred variety. Fame by Daniel Kehlmann 2010-09-19T11:57:00Z

Crime fiction is always well represented on bestseller lists, but this year it's also found its way into the most exclusive chambers of literary prestige. A thriller with a fine literary pedigree: 'His Bloody Project' by Graeme Macrae Burnet 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Her first and second novels both had contemporary settings and were far more literary in style and intention. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z

“On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud,” conceived and edited by the literary agent Andrew Blauner, is scheduled for release in 2023 by Princeton University Press. Aciman, Toibin among contributors to book on Sigmund Freud 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

For reasons I have never been able to fathom – it is so obviously brilliant – no literary agent was willing to try to sell it to a publisher. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z

A literary agent sent the manuscript to a junior editor in New York, Stanley Kauffmann, who was also the movie critic for The New Republic. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Georges Borchardt, her literary agent, confirmed the death, saying Ms. Gallant had been in and out of hospitals the last two or three years with various ailments. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z

But events last month sent the Facebook group — and the little-known, underappreciated world of literary translation — into commotion, resulting in heated exchanges about issues of race and equity in the business. Who should translate Amanda Gorman’s work? That question is ricocheting around the translation industry. 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Aiken’s favorite literary terrain was the blurred border where nineteenth-century realism begins to slip into folklore and fantasy. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

I wrote to several people connected to the French literary world, to ask if they had any knowledge of the translator. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

A number of literary agents will also be on hand. While the book editor's out, Seattle book news keeps rolling 2011-03-18T19:38:07Z

I'd sold out in advance the Sydney comedy festival, the Melbourne literary festival, thought a visa would be a formality. 'Prison isn't high on my list of tragedies' 2013-05-27T17:30:00Z

I did receive invites to the more stuffy, literary types of events, and those talks went well, but I was lucky enough to have my people as my core audience. Why I won't stop writing about "trauma" to focus on joy 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

She later became literary editor of The Sunday Times, where Julian Barnes was her deputy. An Award-Winning Biographer’s Latest Subject: Herself 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

It's the literary selfie stick of hip slackers. Language Rules for the Digital Age 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

PEN Center USA, the Los Angeles branch of the literary and human rights organization PEN International and a vital force in the city’s literary community, will join forces with the New York PEN in 2018. PEN Center USA will merge with New York chapter to become PEN America 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

By her own admission, Donoghue's literary earnings were modest until now; with Room she earned a chunky advance. Real-life tragedies for real-life cash 2010-08-13T08:13:00Z

Any time I've read bits of my novel at literary workshops, people want to talk about it. Myra Hindley: a new chapter 2012-06-19T19:29:01Z

“Thinking about literary examples, until the 20th century, it wasn’t good form to comment on other people’s appearance,” Showalter said. ‘LOVE the eyebrows!’ Just a little verbal grooming among women. 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Yiddish journalists were showboats, garnishing tabloid sensationalism with literary jokes and religious references. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

He also felt squeamish about taking credit for his role in the creation of some of the 20th century’s enduring literary masterpieces. Robert Gottlieb: Avid Reader, Reluctant Writer 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Hill finally seems poised to break out as a major literary talent. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

If you missed the festival in Jaipur, India — considered the world’s largest literary event — last month, no worries. The Literary Festivals to Hit This Year, From Brooklyn to Singapore 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Suddenly, he’s a household name and the toast of the literary community. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

I like these moderately humble prizes, because they are in the necessary business of encouragement, with literary quality as the essential yardstick. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z

Harris' most recent literary project was “Midnight, Texas,” a three-book series about the secretive residents of a town with a reputation for paranormal activity. 'True Blood' author Charlaine Harris will launch a new fantasy series set in a fractured America 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

After its publication and rapturous reception, Powers came to be regarded as not just a literary star but as a soft-spoken eco-warrior and environmental prophet. Richard Powers Speaks For the Trees 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The pulps — a funny mix of literary fiction and junk — rose up as an another popular form of mass-produced entertainment. Who Wears the Wonderpants? Feminists, Amazons and the fate of the world 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

I had to learn to rein in flights of literary fancy. Jamal Mahjoub: 'My wife says Parker Bilal is much nicer' 2013-03-17T19:00:08Z

These books constitute a kind of institutional critique, to borrow a term from the art world, or an institutional autofiction, to adapt an existing literary term. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

“This is weird and literary and local,” she said. A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

But what did Capote find so compelling in Babe, who wasn’t literary or even particularly witty? ‘The Swans of Fifth Avenue’ review: Would you trust Truman Capote? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

But Colm doesn’t share her literary ambitions or her interest in city life. Gardner McKay’s ‘Sea Marks’ Is Revived at Irish Rep 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

As purported fraudsters, hustlers and scammers continue to captivate the collective consciousness, it may be a perfect time to revisit an infamous literary grifter — Tom Ripley. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Austin City Limits’ and ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

Sometimes it seemed as if it wasn’t a musical endeavor as much as something else — literary, or philosophical, or attitudinal. Music: He Can Sing It, if Not Speak It 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z

Howard was an undergraduate and graduate student at Columbia University, where he met Allen Ginsberg and became close friends with classmate Robert Gottlieb, later a top literary editor who published Howard’s translation of De Gaulle. Richard Howard, acclaimed poet-translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Inspired by writer Jorge Luis Borges – the great architect of literary labyrinths and temporal conundrums – Starling's set to fold time with a pan-historical web of works. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-18T00:08:35Z

A literary agent looks after the interests of a writer. Top 10 tips for being a literary agent 2014-05-10T00:21:16Z

The literary shape is gorgeous, and Fugard has always had a gift for the ways intimate relationships get fractured by social forces. What you should be seeing in D.C. theater this week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Offutt’s book is something of a literary detective story interwoven with memories of a youth riddled with sexual confusion and inarticulate yearning. ‘My Father, the Pornographer’: A literary detective story 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Lillian Ross, a celebrated New Yorker magazine writer who created classics of literary journalism, including novel-length pieces on Ernest Hemingway and the making of a Hollywood movie, has died. Lillian Ross, celebrated New Yorker writer, dead at 99 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

I also note that so far no literary editor has given my book to a man to review. Women and sex: intimate adventurers 2011-07-06T07:00:00Z

Hurley’s ability to create unease, combined with his unquestionable talent, make “Devil’s Day” a standout horror novel as well as a piece of literary art. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Based on historical fact and literary invention, it spans 90 years, from the writer Isaac Babel’s adventures in the First Cavalry Army in 1920 to a fatal plane crash in 2010. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

And there's still that literary, pictorial side to Rodin's work, which we find in Victorian painting. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z

In 2011's "Confessions of a Young Novelist," Eco looked back at his career as a novelist and pondered the ingredients for literary success. In 'Confessions of a Young Novelist,' Umberto Eco offers his secret formula for a bestselling novel 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

It might be impossible to recreate onstage the particular magic of Carroll’s writing, which captures as no other literary work does the texture of dreams. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z

The Brontë literary story “only happened because of getting the show on the road with those poems.” A Lost Brontë Library Surfaces 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

First, it was the sex tourism capital of Europe, a paradise of hedonism particularly favoured by gay young English gentlemen of a literary persuasion. TV review: Christopher and His Kind 2011-03-20T21:04:00Z

Almost everything in the life of this great literary polymath is edged with darkness. Clive James – a life in writing 2013-07-05T07:45:01Z

In the 1600s, no less a literary luminary than John Dryden denounced lowbrow verbal amusements that “torture one poor word ten thousand ways.” Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Constantly straddling the line between the old and the new, in form and in narrative, Musker and Clements steered the literary classic into the new millennium and beyond the stars. ‘Treasure Planet’ at 20: Disney’s Failed Space Odyssey Deserved to Soar 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

Our literary diet needs witches in the woodpile, devils in the details, demons in the BMW. Books of the Dead 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Her statement drew wide support in the literary world. Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Liz Moore’s “Long Bright River,” my inaugural pick, is part literary thriller, part family saga, part police procedural. Looking for a Book to Read With Friends? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Beyond Baroque A mainstay of the literary counterculture of Venice since 1968, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center holds poetry readings, workshops and more. 12 ways to do literary good this holiday season 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Among literary scholars and art historians, he is best known for a book translated into English as “The Romantic Agony.” T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z

Their collaboration resulted in “The Hand That Feeds You,” a twisty, unsettling thriller that comes out on Tuesday and bears little resemblance to either of their individual literary styles. ‘The Hand That Feeds You,’ a Thriller Written as an Act of Love for Its Originator 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

Kenneth Goldsmith is a conceptual poet, a literary trickster whose books are found art of a sort. Books of The Times: ‘Seven American Deaths and Disasters’ Transcribes the News 2013-06-18T19:13:23Z

“The Madman’s Library,” by Edward Brooke-Hitching, tracks — to quote its subtitle — “the strangest books, manuscripts and other literary curiosities from history.” Review | What to read in April: A critic’s pick of books that aren’t on the bestseller list 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

He admired the writing of Mark Twain and continued to read literary fiction and historical books throughout his life. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Early attempts at TV adaptations of notoriously unwieldy literary creations haven’t been straightforward. From Watchmen to Catch-22: can TV tackle 'unfilmable' books? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Some literary reading even gets done in places like Crawford, Tex. Cultural Studies: Are You Reading What He?s Reading? 2010-09-03T18:21:00Z

"Hideous" Shelley's creature may be, but in literary terms his erudite author fashioned him from the very finest materials. Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z

He allows that comparisons between literary fiction and genre fiction “needn’t be invidious,” but he basically sticks with the received wisdom. I hope he wouldn’t disagree too much with that crude summary. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

And that is only the beginning of this emotional literary roller coaster. Review | ‘We Are Not Like Them’ continues an important conversation. We shouldn’t look away. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Still running — deadline Monday night, Jan. 30: our contest for disparaging tweets about historical or literary heroes. Style Invitational Week 1212: The Tile Invitational IV 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Johnson, who died last year at the age of 78, writes in a style that’s the literary equivalent of plastic-wrapped slices of American cheese. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

But I wonder if such literary appropriation was necessary. Review: Shedding Skins in Motus’s Genre-Blurring ‘MDLSX’ at La MaMa 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

In the 19th century, it was home to the Ribaut Club, a literary crew who met for drinking, gambling and dancing — a tradition to be resurrected by the inn. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Later, as a sunset turns the Californian sky bubblegum pink, I walk through Chinatown, making a literary pilgrimage to the landmark City Lights bookshop and publishing house. San Francisco, 50 years on from the Summer of Love 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

The 1619 book appears destined for political controversy, but it’s also a literary event. Prize-winning 1619 Project now coming out in book form 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z

Other literary influences from the city abound as well, including the colorful personalities of A.J. ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ at 20: When Wes Anderson Imagined New York 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

They traveled to Boston to cook in the home of Doe Coover, the literary agent who was brought in to represent Ms. Charles. Dora Charles Moves On From Paula Deen, and Makes It All About the Seasoning 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

But only rarely do these relatively purple passages transcend their literary origins, despite Mr. Kiggell’s efforts to hack through the verbiage of an author still finding his voice. | 'Burmese Days': ?Burmese Days? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-11-17T03:03:15Z

It made Aracataca famous and drew literary pilgrims hoping to absorb some of the bewitching energy he wrote about. Mourning and memories in Garcia Marquez's languid hometown 2014-04-19T08:02:58Z

Click here to see the residences of ten literary legends. The Homes of Ten Literary Greats 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

That might sound like a cynical capitulation to pure partisanship, but once again, the literary critics got here before us. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Whenever I’m especially rattled by the parlous state of the world, I take comfort in Frank Kermode’s “The Sense of an Ending,” a little book written by a literary scholar with a prodigious mind. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Ten years later she is holding a clutch of nominations for literary prizes for the same debut book: "A Girl is a Half–formed Thing." Book Talk: Irish author was told 'didn't fit niche' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Blur were always capable of such literary ambition. Blur – review 2012-08-04T23:05:46Z

To make up more ground, look toward bookish guideposts — publishers, international literary prizes and journals that specialize in global literature. Around the World in Books 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Experts say Anaya's novel sparked the Chicano literary movement in the late 1960s and influenced a generation of Latino writers. Rudolfo Anaya's famed novel "Bless Me, Ultima," one of the most recognizable works of Mexican-American Literature, is being made into an opera 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

When a literary agent offered to help him get a book deal, Weir was skeptical, but he agreed to send the manuscript to an editor at Crown. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

But it also strains to connect the author with his literary creations. Review | By the end of 2020, we were supposed to have more J.D. Salinger. Instead we have ‘Sergeant Salinger.’ 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

He speaks in succinct staccato sentences that are full of ambiguity, riddle and eclectic literary references. Anselm Kiefer Raises History’s Ghosts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

For that alone, this deserves to be called perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard – review 2013-04-12T07:13:00Z

An acquaintance introduced him to a literary agent, who correctly discerned commercial potential. Eric Hill, writer and illustrator of ‘Where’s Spot?’ and other children’s classics, dies

My literary relationship with Christina Crosby, author of “A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain,” and prominent figure in several of my books, has felt quite reparative to me. Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

O’Connor’s sentences, as ruthless as Stephen Crane’s but less literary, always more objective than Hemingway’s at his would-be toughest, measured like a rule, and came down flat. Review: ‘The Complete Stories,’ by Flannery O’Connor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Nixon, whose long career as an actress began with an after-school special in 1979 when she was 12, is no stranger to the literary world. Cynthia Nixon will host this year's National Book Awards 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

First published in the 1950s, Baraka crashed the literary party in 1964, at the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich Village, when “Dutchman” opened and made instant history at the height of the civil rights movement. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z

There is a much broader crossover now," he said, "but literary fiction is difficult because it needs to be taken seriously. Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the rules of fiction 2013-03-10T00:06:11Z

And finally it is about disease as performance, literary and otherwise. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

This book is the brilliant fulfillment of that commitment, and through it, Laymon achieves another goal: “to become a person, not just an author, worthy of forgiveness and risk from literary and literal friends.” Kiese Laymon Revisits Some Early Essays, and Reclaims His Voice 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

It’s literary because Johnston’s prose is lyrical, even poetic, to a degree rarely found in fiction, literary or otherwise. Book review: ‘Descent’ by Tim Johnston 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

Last week, worrying aloud, he took aim at what he saw as the diminished critical standards of the literary blogosphere. Are professional book reviewers better than amateurs? 2012-10-01T10:21:40Z

Joshua Ferris’s literary career commenced in a way many writers might envy. Joshua Ferris’s Ode to the Hapless American Everyman 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Yet his personal war was never with a military opponent: it had been with his ravaging depression and with his struggle to find a literary expression through poetry that was worthy of his talents. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

It is a special kind of literary criticism that can make the reader appear to herself a prune, or a prude. The Deeply Wacky Pleasures of Jane Alison’s “Meander, Spiral, Explode” 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Please join us in support of all those in the literary world during this challenging time. A Letter From the Editors of the Book Review 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

In addition to her children’s fiction, Johnson founded two periodicals, The Joy, a literary magazine marketed to girls, and The Ivy, focusing on African American history. ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

And “The Ask” is, at least so far, the definitive literary treatment of a hugely important social phenomenon. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z

Why do we choose to work in forms like the short story, the literary novel, the essay, the sonnet – forms which have very little commercial value? Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z

So Tengo is first seen being roped into a literary scheme. Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z

It is as compelling as literary fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine called it a “profound, touching work.” 2010-01-28T07:20:00Z

What are the spices and sweetmeats of your literary stew? Bedside reading: the naked truth 2010-04-02T13:30:00Z

The literary career of Wilfred Owen was very much influenced by his mother. Call to protect WWI poet's home 2012-08-30T05:29:38Z

The show is a natural choice for the Washington Stage Guild, the literary troupe whose house writer is the early Ibsen champion George Bernard Shaw. Review | In the comic ‘Resolving Hedda,’ the protagonist tries to actually live through the end of the play 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

But more often Andrews’s writing is transportingly voluptuous, conjuring tastes and smells and sounds like her literary godmother, Edna O’Brien. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Both were literarily ambitious, both married with small children. Before the Feminist Revolution, This ‘Messy Experiment’ Nurtured Female Talent 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Just eight months after these words were published Mitchell began working full time for the New Yorker, where his ambitions turned literary. The grammar of hard facts 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

In recent years, a number of talented novelists have experienced a sudden and alarming loss of faith in their chosen literary form. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Vidal and author Norman Mailer conducted a lengthy literary feud. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z

More an oral poem than a play, it may be the most harrowing literary record of suicidal depression since Sylvia Plath's poetry collection "Ariel." To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Compared with the complex, mature, literary nature of Watchmen, most other comic-book titles looked juvenile and two-dimensional. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Here’s a rare literary phenomenon: Americans are rushing to read poetry. ArtsBeat Blog: Sales Soar for Newly Minted Poet Laureate 2011-08-11T17:15:04Z

No longer a clunky, ill-fitting ensemble of literary legends, the characters in Penny Dreadful fit together brilliantly under Logan’s banner of long-suffering rogues. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

I could easily write a work of literary fiction. Literary debate 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Lit Crawl, she said, is “much more approachable as a literary festival.” A Heady Cocktail of Books and Booze 2013-09-12T17:11:04Z

Posner created faithful literary adaptations for years before his breakout play “Stupid … Bird,” an irreverent contemporary take on Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” which L.A. The 99-Seat Beat: Aaron Posner, Anna Ziegler and the return of Tim Dang 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the more apt comparison would be to novelists like Pearl S. Buck and James Michener, writers who once occupied a now defunct space somewhere between literary and popular fiction. Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

From the moment he first appeared in "Devil in a Blue Dress" in 1990, Easy Rawlins, was an instant favorite of discerning readers and literary critics alike. Review: Easy Rawlins returns in `Little Green' 2013-05-15T17:37:17Z

“While it is always interesting to see what literary figures will write when they attempt children’s books, the results are not always satisfying.” A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Is traditional literary biography equipped to address its own historical bias? She Found Carson McCullers’s Love Letters. They Taught Her Something About Herself. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

On the podcast Ms. Gabrielsson discusses her life with the author of the Millennium Trilogy and the fight over his literary estate. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: A History of the Papacy 2011-07-08T18:57:20Z

Those fans have been described as bookish, while Darnielle’s songs have often been called literary. What to Do in New York City in August 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

He was a great reader of fiction and literature, so literary matters — books, characters and authors — formed another strand in our continuing conversation. Transference? I’ll Take It 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Mars-Jones attacked Cunningham's prolific use of literary references, noting each quote used from classic novels. Mars-Jones wins Hatchet Job prize 2012-02-08T10:23:29Z

What do we desire from our American literary male protagonists these days? Men in books 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z

Karr is smart to acknowledge both literary economics and Samuel Johnson, who famously said, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” ‘The Art of Memoir’ review: Mary Karr’s advice for telling your life story 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s time for Americans to send the U.K. some TV that merges literary class and gritty fun with such ease. Review: 'War and Peace' is Tolstoy, Plus 21st Century Flair 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And Velsor shares his creator’s gift for exclamation; who else but the author of “O Captain! My Captain!” would command the “clerk, literary man, sedentary person”: “Up! . . . Out in the morning!” Lessons on Male Insecurity (and Indigestion) from Walt Whitman’s Men’s-Health Column 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

The numbers regarding authorship are difficult to pin down, because publishing includes such a mix of genres and styles, commercial and literary. Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

What “We Wrote in Symbols” captures most strongly is the richness and depth of erotic writing in the Arabic literary tradition, and the incredible diversity and range of its female voices. Review | ‘We Wrote in Symbols’ is a groundbreaking collection of Arab women writing about love and lust 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

“I am enormously flattered to be named as a finalist of 2011 Man Booker International Prize,” Mr. le Carré said in a statement issued through his literary agent. ArtsBeat: John le Carr?, the Unwilling Prize Nominee 2011-03-30T16:20:32Z

The novelist Yiyun Li is hosting a “War and Peace” book club called Tolstoy Together on the website of the literary magazine A Public Space. Ann Patchett on Why We Need Life-Changing Books Right Now 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z

As a literary artefact the menu is powerful indeed: a psychic amuse-gueule. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z

Numbers up ... accountants are laying literary careers to rest Recently, I read some sad news: Royston Blake is dead ... The characters who are going to an early grave 2010-06-08T10:00:00Z

Even devoted readers of literary fiction might quail before novels celebrated for their obscure, metafictional plots. Review | Ben Lerner’s brilliant new novel, ‘The Topeka School,’ captures America’s brutal divisions 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Now, after a week of frantic headlines about the sale, Paradise Media has become an unlikely hero to the literary institution. The Believer, a Beloved Literary Magazine, Goes Home After a Risqué Detour 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

The Booker Prize became one of the world’s most prestigious awards for fiction by setting for itself one of literary criticism’s loftiest goals: to recognize the year’s best novel written in English. After Her Heart Stops Beating, a Woman Continues to Think 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Arts and Lectures runs several series throughout the year — a literary series, a poetry series and a series called SAL Presents, among others. Seattle Arts & Lectures announces 2015-16 season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

For Ms. Didion, that was not just a literary but a spiritual exercise, conducted in opposition to what she calls the “accidie” — the moral torpor — of the late 1960s. Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

That said, the literary qualities of the prose did not strike me as incongruous. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

At $75,000, it is the most lucrative literary award offered by PEN and among the largest in the U.S. PEN America launches $75,000 book prize, one of the country's biggest 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

I'm aware that, for most writers this kind of cloud-sourced creativity will sound like the realisation of a literary nightmare. The Dragon Lords, world's first 'cloud-sourced' novel, prepares to land 2012-12-17T17:26:57Z

His active literary career was largely confined to the 1930s. Reading for a winter’s night: The detective fiction of Todd Downing 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

No literary snob, Wessells enthusiastically points out science fiction’s influence on rock music, the punk scene and comics. Review | An expert’s guide to science fiction’s greatest — and neglected — works 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Kill Your Darlings, though, is the real deal, a genuine attempt to source the beginning of America's first true literary counterculture of the 20th century. Sundance film festival 2013: Kill Your Darlings - first look review 2013-01-20T11:34:27Z

There has always been a feeling that literary fiction is improving, that you come away from reading it and you're a better person for it. Could Miles Franklin turn the Booker prize to crime? 2010-06-25T12:21:00Z

She admired his literary boldness but also treasured his awkward affection. Review | How David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Patti Smith and other musicians fell for William S. Burroughs 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

It's not a feat of the writer's art exclusive to highbrow literary fiction. Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children 2011-02-11T12:50:24Z

Burns attended Andover and Harvard, but despite ringing endorsements from professors who recognized his literary gifts, he was more or less blackballed because of his religion when he sought work as a prep school teacher. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z

The poem is inscribed on a stone monument at the gorge, one of several such literary monuments in Nikko. Overnighter : North of Tokyo, Exploring the Sacred and Scenic 2014-02-06T19:30:54Z

“Our goal was always, ‘Can we use the literary arts to create networks that normally wouldn’t form?’” Writ Large crams 90 literary events into 90 days, starting July 5 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Martin is a literary dervish, enthralled by complicated characters and vivid language, and bursting with the wild vision of the very best tale tellers. Books of The Times: In a Fantasyland of Liars, Keep Your Dragon Close 2011-07-14T17:28:37Z

Mr. Fleming had been hired to read to the literary scholar Percy Lubbock, a close friend of Henry James’s, who had lost his sight. Hugh Honour, Art Historian and Author, Dies at 88 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

He spent a lifetime exploring the multiplicity of his inner self this way, using a literary idea he called heteronym to write in many styles as different people with rich backstories. In Portugal, a personal Age of Discovery 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Of course, that didn’t stop us from friending him — and it hasn’t stopped hundreds of writers and literary types and hopeful fans, either. Is that Don DeLillo crowdsourcing a story on Facebook? 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

L.A. is a literary city full of smart, interesting people doing smart, interesting things — and doing them from outside the confines of the traditional routes. Janelle Brown on taboos, motherhood and her novel 'Watch Me Disappear' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Judge and literary editor of the Independent Boyd Tonkin said the shortlist combined "a supremely high standard of imagination and expression with a sweeping variety of forms and settings". Orhan Pamuk leads shortlist for Independent foreign fiction prize 2011-04-11T14:22:12Z

In fact, Mr. McCann, the National Book Award-winning novelist; Mr. Anderson, the filmmaker; and Mr. Wilson, the actor and Mr. Anderson’s frequent collaborator, were all students at Texas and contributors to its literary magazine Analecta. ArtsBeat: Early Fiction by Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson and Colum McCann 2010-10-15T16:34:00Z

Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times that "his Black persona has been such a success that he looks increasingly like the Superman to Mr. Banville's more literary Clark Kent." Writer Banville enjoys new lease on life as Black 2011-07-12T21:04:27Z

I don't wish to undermine the literary quality of these books – they're all beautifully written – but you can be too precious about it. Spark tipped for Lost Booker 2010-03-25T14:40:00Z

I had known Christopher for 10 years and fought back my romantic feelings with a machete because he was my literary agent and there were a thousand other reasons my attraction to him was impossible. Modern Love: Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible - Modern Love 2013-05-23T22:40:29Z

By the time Lewis and Eliot converted to the faith in the late 1920s, Christianity was a bête noire of the literary world. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z

Taken together, the prizes, fellowships and grants from the literary and human rights organization will confer $200,000 on writers, editors and translators this year. PEN Announces Finalists for 2016 Literary Awards 1455-03-03T05:00:00Z

For all the hand-wringing that film and television have eclipsed literary fiction at the center of the cultural conversation, it must be acknowledged that occasionally cinema saves novels from mildewed obscurity. The Novel That Inspired Harry Styles and Emma Corrin’s Upcoming Film 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

On land, villas once owned by literary stars like Jules Verne and W. Somerset Maugham are now inhabited by wealthy Arabs and Russians. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Pohl, who also published poetry and served as a literary editor, is best known for his 1977 novel "Gateway," which told the story of a space station hidden in an asteroid. Science fiction writer Frederik Pohl dies at 93 2013-09-03T18:49:29Z

And in all these pieces, she is more than a literary spectator, she is a sensitive but not in the least vainglorious participant. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore – review 2012-07-07T23:05:07Z

Nevertheless, his Capote-scale party skills have made him a kind of mascot for the city’s literary A-list. His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z

Mr. le Carré’s best-known spy, Smiley, is among the great literary characters of the 20th century. John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Having never hosted a literary dinner party, this idea terrifies me. Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

That domestic exposure sparked a social media conversation about literary decor. Social isolation (and video chat) is bringing renewed attention to the art of the bookshelf 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sillitoe’s other books include several forays into far-flung literary genres. Alan Sillitoe, ?Angry? British Author, Dies at 82 2010-04-26T04:37:00Z

But Britain hasn't been good at embracing the rest of the world in literary terms. Making Hay: British book fest conquers the world 2010-06-02T11:37:00Z

Mr. Hardy wrote hundreds of songs — protest songs, political talking songs and romantic ballads — his lyrics often consciously literary, his music tinged with a Celtic sound. Jack Hardy, Folk Singer and Keeper of the Tradition, Dies at 63 2011-03-13T04:45:04Z

After more than 20 mysteries published in a now 30-year career, Parker made the opposite switch, taking his first foray into literary fiction with 2014's "Full Measure," which he said couldn't work as a mystery. Festival of Books: Mystery writers who shift to literary fiction -- and back 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

The goal of “Forever Words,” Mr. Cash said, was to establish his father as a major poet and a “cultural American literary figure.” Johnny Cash, the Poet in Black 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Something of that spiritual aura still hovers around our sense of what it means to read and write “literary fiction.” A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Scheduled talks at a school in Newark and a young-adult literary festival in Texas were canceled over concerns about the politically charged topic, Mr. Reynolds said. New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Given his longstanding interest in literary and historical subjects, Mr. Wright was sometimes asked how he found himself writing two books with Pavarotti. William Wright, Biographer of Lillian Hellman, Dies at 85 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

It examines literary history from a single, obsessive point of view. Martin Amis: saviour of modern literature? 2010-04-20T13:33:00Z

Henry is cutting about literary biographers who fall into the slack habit of finding one-to-one correspondences between real life people and fictional characters. The Life of George Eliot by Nancy Henry - review 2012-06-01T21:55:03Z

We could also use a literary culture that nurtures more writers the way it has Duchovny. Review | David Duchovny wants to be taken seriously as a novelist. His new book makes a good case. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

This site is all about children – it's their space to review and discuss books and generally get involved in all things literary. Notes for parents and guardians 2011-03-02T11:51:25Z

A hybrid affair The first Hay festival took place 23 years ago, starting out as a relatively modest provincial literary festival. Confessions of a Hay virgin 2010-06-01T06:59:00Z

The novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic will join the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy who are either buried or commemorated in the famous location. Narnia author Lewis to be honored at Poets' Corner 2012-11-22T15:36:55Z

The classic tale first appeared in All the Year Round, a literary periodical to which Dickens was keen to have Evans/Eliot contribute. Signed Dickens book up for £275,000 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Her book “Land of Love and Ruins” is from the independent press Restless Books and, as Justin Taylor writes in our review, contains a solitude less reticent, less chastened than literary cousins W.G. Welcome to the new L.A. Times books newsletter 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

In thanking the agent responsible for his new short-story collection, “We Live in Water,” Jess Walter gives a shout-out to “the literary social worker who found homes for these troubled kids.” Books of The Times: ‘We Live in Water’ by Jess Walter 2013-01-31T21:10:42Z

The subject of both literary arts, for Maxwell, is the enlacing of human passions in the web of relationships, rules, habits and prejudices that make up what is called society. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

She also creates the weekly interactive literary quiz for the Book Review and occasionally contributes reviews. A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Gornick’s also a crucial feminist thinker, literary critic, and something of an oral historian. Feminist icon Vivian Gornick, still in the fight: A conversation with Jonathan Lethem 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Occasionally, Chinese friends proud of Tsiang’s literary ambition would chip in fifteen or twenty dollars to help with costs, and he remained hopeful that a career as a writer was in the offing. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Wainaina, who died in 2019 at age 48, became an outsize figure on the literary landscape, his omnivorous brilliance matched by ambition and vision on a continental scale. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

The project’s hook lay in its contributors: Each story — “Carmen,” “The Venus of Ille” and a dozen others — would be translated by a different, and notable, literary figure of the time, all friends of Phelps’s. Review | Nabokov unplugged: A new collection of his essays delivers unvarnished opinions 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

In some cases, there are sly literary allusions that deliberately transpose gender. When Japan Had a Third Gender 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Reid also happens to be Iceland’s first lady, and her enthusiasm for the country and its literary life is both winning and good public relations. When you’re ready to move from summer reading to summer writing 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The Fitzgerald literary estate and Scribner’s, which has sold tens of millions of copies of “Gatsby,” no longer control this essential text of our cultural past. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

Perhaps this is why climate change hasn’t yet left a literary footprint commensurate with its historical weight. Inventing Climate-Change Literature 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

This summer’s hit literary debut from Karen Thompson Walker, “Age of Miracles,” adds kindling to the emotional pyre. Books of The Times: Prophecies by Nostradamus and Climate Central 2012-07-23T20:56:24Z

Reviews from the literary magazine Parnassus are said to be “lyric tweets.” Manic poets collide in STC’s newly hip 18th-century ‘Metromaniacs’ 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

They’re accosted by one of her authors, a glittering young literary star from Brooklyn who only writes autobiography. A Novel Based on the True Story of a Con Man and His Ghostwriter 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Goebbels’s inspired production brings out the philosophical resonances that run through the work and revels in its literary crosscurrents. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

His goal was to bring the authenticity and cultural depth to articles and reviews that he felt was lacking in coverage of Southeast Asia in major literary magazines. Eluding Censors, a Magazine Covers Southeast Asia’s Literary Scene 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Other influences are more direct: I'd like my literary landscapes to be as atmospheric and as powerful as those painted by Caspar David Friedrich. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z

If these videos were literary short stories, they would resemble those of Mary Gaitskill. Art Review: A Burgeoning Film Career Built on Random Encounters 2011-02-24T22:35:21Z

He would give the literary background of an opera libretto, delve into multiple editions of the score, and recount its performance history before proceeding to the rendition at hand. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

He psychoanalyzes me with a lot of literary references and scraps of poetry. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Deep Dive Back Into ‘The Sopranos’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

This is not to be a poem centred on war and politics, like his other great literary achievement, "Full Moon at Tierz," but a love poem. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z

Years later I learned it was written by the most knowledgeable and opinionated and literary scholars of the time. The Book That Turned Annie Leibovitz Into a Photographer 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Our suggestions for May releases include historical and literary fiction, a political manifesto and an essay collection from a beloved author. 10 books to read in May 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Richard Hugo House's literary series continues its tradition of coming up with a theme, then commissioning authors and artists to write and present original work for that theme. William Gibson, Nancy Pearl among authors planning fall appearances in Seattle 2010-07-30T23:28:00Z

I'm quite prepared to believe that each of the listed novels that's told in the present tense is a miracle of literary art. Philip Pullman calls time on the present tense 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

But even after getting published, it's often too soon for writers to trade in finance for literary aspirations. From finance to fiction in India and Pakistan 2010-12-17T18:00:09Z

Within the pages of New Worlds, Moorcock created a literary revolution, one that would have science fiction fans calling for his head. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Though “Bruja” is not a traditionally plotted literary work, it contains themes and symbols — we are, after all, dwelling in a person’s subconscious. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Most impressive is how Bollen's book is rich in literary diversions, moments of keen sociological and emotional insight — often into personal isolation — that transcend the conventions of its story. Christopher Bollen's 'Orient' a literary thriller with wit and style 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

This production faces a typical problem for immersive adaptations of literary works: how to translate a beloved text via a format that is better served by a de-emphasis on the text. ‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

In one way it's high time writing was formalised: academic institutions offer a shelter for literary values, and for those who wish to practise them, in a way that publishing, being increasingly market-driven, does not. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z

Alas, just as this versatile literary journalist entered his 70s, his health began to break down. Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the need for obliqueness can also make the literary imagination more resourceful. Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z

As John Lennon’s most persistent literary muse, Carroll knew a thing or two about loss, one of the most constant themes in the Beatles' vast songwriterly corpus. "Now and Then": The history of the Beatles' final song and how it's getting released 46 years later 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

Then Komatsu will enter it in a literary contest, and the girl will surely win a prize and create a media frenzy. Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z

Four institutions have been invited to examine her husband’s papers and determine their literary and monetary value. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z

Looking natty in a three-piece suit, Henley lightly drawls Capote’s narration — the popular adaptation is by Russell Vandenbroucke — sharply delivering the writer’s vivid descriptions and wryly enjoying the literary handiwork. Truman Capote done right in ‘Holiday Memories’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr Barley said there had been an "explosion of literary talent" in Scotland over the past 30 years. Book festival celebrates 30 years 2013-08-09T23:04:00Z

Edited by Tijuana’s greatest literary son, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, along with El Paso’s late, great Bobby Byrd and his son John William Byrd, this wild anthology covers the good, the bad and the ugly. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

The awards ceremony May 6 at the Folger Shakespeare Library will be the year’s most elegant and enjoyable literary event. The PEN/Faulkner finalists: A sign of new diversity in books? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

But really, every work by this conservative Christian writer is a literary act of confession, a quest for purpose and a purge of disillusionment. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

But filled a void in my budding literary life that I didn’t know I had: agency. The Real ‘You’ Tube: Choose Your Own Adventure‘s New Era 2013-01-09T13:00:47Z

Fiction is my favorite — literary fiction, and also domestic fiction, chick lit, beach reads, whatever you want to call the more fun, more breezy stuff. Jennifer Weiner Used to Read Her Father’s Medical Textbooks for Fun 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

There is something about the precious capsule of perfection that the short story has been in our literary culture that I am really challenged and excited by. Tiphanie Yanique on the Necessity of the Spirit 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

In early March, the Markaz is hosting an event at Larchmont Village’s Chevalier’s Books to mark the 10th anniversary of the bombing of Baghdad’s Mutanabbi Street, once one of Iraq’s most important literary centers. How the Trump travel ban is already impacting L.A. arts institutions and artists 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

There was one more avenue I’d yet to try in my pursuit of literary fame: give it away. I’m a self-publishing failure 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the list of literary classics that have been done to death, Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” must rank fairly high. Netflix's "Dracula": Put a stake in it – it's not well done 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

Now, let's talk about the other aspect of the literary experience, its exemplarity. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z

Can you picture any new literary characters joining the mix? 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Did the Finale Surprise? 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s one of the great friendships in literary history and a key to the success of the stories,” he said. Museums Special Section: Entering World of Literature’s Great Sleuth 2014-03-19T20:37:03Z

The publication of “Little Boy” caps a decades-long partnership between Mr. Lord and Mr. Ferlinghetti — two literary legends who met in the 1950s. At 99, the Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Has a New Novel 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

I just wish it weren’t written with a level of preciousness that made me want to scream my literary safe word. I’ll Have What She’s Having: Books for Better Sex and Better Relationships 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

New England in the mid-19th century was a literary hothouse, overgrown with wild and exotic talents. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

His best work doesn’t wallow, it strides, making no apologies for a style that is lofty, literary and unafraid of long trips around the barn to get to the point. Review: In ‘The Perplexed,’ Moral Gridlock on Fifth Avenue 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Now working as a literary editor, the 47-year-old says she also struggles to understand why Matzneff’s publishers marketed his most nauseating writings. France’s #MeToo: Book on child-sex writer prompts outcry 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

They are not fictional versions of therapeutic practice but narratives that employ psychoanalysis as a literary device to unleash an uncensored first-person confession. Siri Hustvedt on the psychoanalyst in fiction 2012-06-08T21:55:19Z

“I never pretended to be a literary writer,” Ms. Collins said in the 2007 interview with The Times. Jackie Collins, Novelist Who Wrote of Hollywood’s Glamorous Side, Dies at 77 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z

He began to see — in the way a writer will notice, when his or her work isn’t going well, that the literary world is broken — everything that was wrong with the N.R.A. ‘Inside the NRA’ Offers an Unconvincing Confession of Swamp Regret 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

A way to decide this question is to utilize the Book Review’s frequent By the Book question: “You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, living or dead, do you invite?” Was Daniel Patrick Moynihan Right About America? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Despite the burden and the blessing of his father’s fame, Julian Hawthorne made a distinctive literary career of his own. ‘Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son,’ by Gary Scharnhorst

He’s not just a protest singer, or a pop singer, but a phenomenon who rolls into his art lots of disparate musical, literary and other strands. Bob Dylan 101: A Harvard Professor Has the Coolest Class on Campus 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

“Like an African ancestor, it lives on in the literary afterlife, unseen but moving things around for those of us who work in this challenging but rewarding field.” A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

I have to admit that, as deputy editor of the paper at the time, I was sceptical when the literary editor, Terry Kilmartin, put Clive's name forward for the job. How Clive James transformed the role of television critic 2012-06-23T23:06:15Z

This was an untypically chirpy remark from the doyen of literary lepidopterists, and not quite in the mood of Guardian journalist Patrick Barkham when he set out on his extraordinary odyssey. The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of our Emperors and?Admirals by Patrick Barkham ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z

The new collection features more of her distinctive voice, a reprieve from what Ms. Babitz once derided as the “merciless” seriousness of the literary establishment. The Eve Babitz Revival 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Here, he reveals himself to be a skillful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

A literary publishing house is a strange beast—a business, yes, but also less and more than one. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

He edited some of the day’s most esteemed literary journals while in Europe and wrote for newspapers in Spain and South America, and The New York Times. The Inescapable Poet of Nicaragua 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Founded in 1974, the National Book Critics Circle is made up of more than 600 literary critics and book review editors in the United States. National Book Critics Circle Names 2020 Award Winners 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

In this week’s Travel section, Gregory Dicum explores San Francisco’s literary scene, which remains robust despite dire warnings of the publishing industry’s demise. In Transit: Sunday Preview 2010-12-04T00:11:00Z

He caps this off with a drawing featuring Salinger’s image on television and the caption: “And, in literary news, J. D. Salinger’s privacy has been violated once again by his appearance in this cartoon.” Books of The Times: Bob Mankoff’s ‘How About Never — Is Never Good for You?’ 2014-03-19T20:53:31Z

It’s the latest project from 21st Editions, a Cape Cod, Mass.-based maker of literary works of art. The $9,000 short story: Adam Johnson’s tale is no ordinary book 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Held at the Beverly Hills Hotel each fall, the annual awards ceremony is the most glamorous of Los Angeles' literary events. Aisha Tyler to host PEN Awards with appearance by Amy Poehler 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

That said, not even Jacobson possesses the literary prowess or the personality that would be required to sell readers on a minute-by-minute breakdown of insomnia. In ‘I Might Regret This,’ Abbi Jacobson Hits the Road. Insomnia, Heartbreak, Hilarity and Self-Discovery Ensue. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The filmmakers refuse to romanticize these literary favorites, instead casting them as likable screw-ups who, like their child iterations, get in way over their heads. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

“Her work functions on conceptual, literary and Aesopian levels,” she said. Still Making Art, and Sly Jokes, at Age 91 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

It was the force of Roth’s fame that enabled him to facilitate the passage of Manea to a much-honored American literary life. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Given Lee’s literary stature, it is clear that any upcoming book would likely spell commercial success for the publisher, literary agent and author. Harper Lee's New Book Raises Concerns About Author's Care 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Growing up in a town outside Moscow, where his father worked as a professor of metallurgy, Sorokin had an early taste of literary notoriety. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z

The shuttering of the store lit a fire under Ms. Fennell, who felt an urgent need for an infusion of literary influence in her hometown. Coming Soon to the Bronx, a Long Overdue Book Festival 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

This is just a start; there are, of course, many other organizations, nonprofit publishers, literary journals, libraries and more that are doing their part to enrich the literary lives of Angelenos. 12 ways to do literary good this holiday season 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

I was dimly aware that we were too young and inexperienced to be making a lifetime vow of monogamy, but my literary ambition and my romantic idealism prevailed. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z

I was thinking about what that kind of literary tradition meant to me, as someone whose mom was from the South Bronx, my father was from Birmingham. "People are actively, persistently racist": Poet Joshua Bennett on performative anti-racism 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

At the age of seventy-seven, Atwood is a literary titan and a feminist hero; as Mead writes, “current events have polished the oracular sheen of her reputation.“ Behind the Portrait: Margaret Atwood 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Now in its sixth year and the largest international literary gathering in Bangladesh, the festival — a nonprofit entity — doesn’t require tickets for entry. The price of free speech in Bangladesh 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The county’s program also includes a circle of all poet laureate applicants, who meet to expand offerings for literary arts and make their proposed projects a reality. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

I think it was “Kant for Kids”— the mind reels — even more than the mention of Kafka or literary absurdism that made me look further into this odd novella, originally published in 1920. Book review: Metaphysical novella ‘The Creator’ by Mynona blurs the boundary between dream and reality 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

I was more careful at Waterstone's literary lunches round the country and at the yearly receptions given at the Royal Geographical Society in aid of International PEN. Will Waterstone's have a significant future selling books in Britain? 2012-12-21T22:54:01Z

Mr. Ibrahim’s publisher, Cassava Republic, has been at the forefront of Nigeria’s literary renaissance, and now the company has global ambitions. A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

The shortlists were first announced by the literary website the Millions. Thirteen countries and nine languages are among the finalists for the Best Translated Book Awards 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Much about Mann’s book will be obscure to contemporary readers, but civilization’s literary man will be immediately recognizable. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Follow New York Times Books on Facebook and Twitter, sign up for our newsletter or our literary calendar. When It Comes to Writing, Cheston Knapp Is His Own Harshest Critic 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

One character in “The Accident” began as a receptionist at a literary agency, fully believing she would work her way up through the ranks. Books of The Times: ‘The Accident,’ a New Novel by Chris Pavone of ‘The Expats’ 2014-03-05T21:59:09Z

Ms. Morgan’s literary sins, if sins they are, derive from her muse, which appears to be almost too big to carry. Review: In C.E. Morgan’s ‘The Sport of Kings,’ Racing Against the Tide 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Facing such Goliaths, Mr. Fechter fires every literary allusion in his arsenal without ever nourishing any idea or observation into a coherent and full-bodied play. | 'Shakespeare?s Slave': A Love-Struck Romeo Finds Inspiration at Last 2011-06-01T21:11:06Z

I have followed, so far as possible, the same criteria: basically, the impact of the individual writer, or her book, on literary history. Are these the 50 most influential books by women? 2013-02-11T12:46:21Z

It's a poignant tale that looked sure to please anyone who's ever entertained literary or other artistic pretentions - especially failed ones. Chilean film at Cannes celebrates life and books 2011-05-16T18:36:08Z

Andrew Davies, the indefatigable overachiever of British literary adapters, expands on the novel Jane Austen abandoned before her death. The 50 TV Shows You Need to Watch This Winter 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

It's like the literary equivalent of a TV binge watching structure. Laura Lippman on turning true crime into fiction: "Am I not appropriating somebody's story?" 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Vivid, gorgeous writing and the most curious literary voyage since Pi Patel found himself on a lifeboat with a tiger in "Life of Pi." Armchair adventures: books filled with heart-pounding thrills 2011-07-15T20:15:09Z

Plot is often an afterthought in this kind of character-based literary novel, and at times the story seems to meander and scatter pleasantly, but Mr. Gallaway brings things together quite neatly, even startlingly. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z

Moving back and forth through memories, invoking her literary hero Samuel Beckett, it is a meditation on mortality and meaning from the edge of the abyss. Remembering author, teacher and critic Judith Kitchen 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Several emails passed between us but he refused point-blank to remove our names from the book, which he termed “literary travel writing.” I am named in a terrible book 2013-01-16T01:00:00Z

Courtesy of Rinko Kawauchi and Foil Gallery, Tokyo The Brighton Photo Biennial, now in its fourth edition, has not impacted on the public imagination the way certain literary and art festivals have. Brighton Photo Biennial 2010-10-01T08:52:00Z

The shortlist, he said, has been assembled with no regard to an overarching theory of literary merit. Man Booker Prize: Amelia Hill on the 'Olympics of literature' 2011-03-30T06:00:05Z

You founded one of the most influential literary magazines in the US. Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' – interview 2013-01-26T21:00:01Z

When the dinner was held, Fauset had been the literary editor of The Crisis, the official magazine of the N.A.A.C.P., for the previous five years. The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

There are few places, in fact, endowed with as much cosmological and political significance as Iraq or Syria in the medieval Arabic literary and intellectual tradition. Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

But after winning a literary competition he never looked back and never stopped writing; up to half a million words a year. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The award, now known as the Man Booker Prize, is considered Britain’s loftiest literary honor. Barry Unsworth, Historical Novelist, Dies at 81 2012-06-08T02:47:19Z

During these literary sprees, I even undertake actual research, scribble notes, talk to experts. Review | Robert E. Howard became famous for creating Conan. But that warrior was only the beginning. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

That's what happens with literary prizes, especially when there are five judges, who would find it hard to agree on what fizzy water to order. Rick Gekoski: It takes judgment, not taste, to pick a Booker winner 2011-08-26T13:25:14Z

It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic. Poetry by jailed Nobel winner coming to US in 2012 2010-12-09T15:02:00Z

But “Exit West” is likely to draw a much broader audience, and seems poised to become one of this year’s most significant literary works. Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

The answer is: the creators of all those literary characters played together on the first celebrity cricket team more than a century ago. Howzat? 2010-05-07T07:12:00Z

Barney: Harold Bloom’s review of “Ancient Evenings” suggested that Mailer is the protagonist, and that it’s basically about his relationship to the American literary canon. | Sexy Beast 2014-02-07T17:56:52Z

Her literary memoir was nominated for a National Book Award in 1970 and remained on The New York Times paperback best-seller list for two years. Judy Feiffer, Who Helped Develop Two Top Memoirs, Dies at 87 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Other pieces are more sweeping, more literary in form, or both. Leading writers publish bad reviews of themselves 2013-03-25T12:09:39Z

Judging from the largely ecstatic early responses to the novel, the literary world seems to enjoy being skewered. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

He thinks the medium erased the audience’s cinema literary. The Best DVD of the Year: Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinema 2012-01-06T15:00:09Z

Queried by Ness on the importance of genre in his writing, Miéville replied that he prefers to think of genre as a literary tradition. China Miéville was the star turn at the Edinburgh International Book festival 2012-08-24T14:52:58Z

He was wondering why Curtis Brown, one of the UK's largest literary agencies, which receives between 600 and 800 manuscripts a month, wanted to welcome yet more at Foyles in central London last month. What do literary agents really want? 2012-10-01T12:00:02Z

Clearly, decades in the business have rendered Boyne fluent in the language of literary combat. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Under such circumstances, what we require is palliative literary care – the comfort of merely reading about the wild yonder, and the splendid folk who mastered it, while carrying wilfully on with our own supine dependencies. Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology 2013-01-31T14:01:01Z

You write that “superior criticism — the novel’s ghostly twin — not only unifies and interprets a literary culture but has the power to imagine it into being.” How does criticism imagine a literary culture into being? Cynthia Ozick, with her new collection 'Critics, Monsters, Fanatics,' on her writing life 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Salon spoke to Griffin by phone recently her about the album, writing process, inspirations, both political and literary, and democracy. “We are at emergency levels all over the globe”: Patty Griffin on human trafficking, John Crawford’s death and women in the future of democracy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

He films Margulies’s adaptation of Lipsky’s book—rather, he films Wallace’s language—as if its literary distinction were minor and secondary to the action at hand. David Foster Wallace Isn’t Just Like Us! 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

He meant people like the young woman wearing a calf-length gray knit cardigan who looked as if she got lost on her way to a reading at an Oxford literary society. Critical Shopper: Chuck and Doc Step Out 2011-01-05T18:57:08Z

In 1975, he joined the editorial staff of The New Statesman magazine and within about a year he was its literary editor, at 27. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

It hopes to be, as Hunter wrote in an email, "forward-thinking, intellectually engaging, and humorous hub for all things literary." Electric Literature admits it's an online powerhouse, revamps 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

For all the accolades, McCarthy seemed allergic to literary fame. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

In that case, perhaps his position in the literary canon ought to be reconsidered? The Trouble with Dogs for a Writer 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

During the last years of the Stalin regime, only the most dignified of literary styles was acceptable. How the Soviet Literary Establishment Censored Vasily Grossman 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

Much of that language happens to be literary, and it centers on themes of isolation and community. At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

“Normally, when working on either a historical character or literary character, I find that it’s good to start from a blank slate anyway,” Anderson said. Gillian Anderson brings uncanny ‘Iron Lady’ to ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

“These are the late poems,” Atwood declares at the outset of her 16th poetry collection, ribbing readers about the ways the literary community treats the works of poets of a certain age. Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Well, not to labour the point, here's another example of literary Globish at work. Miguel Syjuco shows how prizes are literary powerhouses ? not reviews 2010-05-10T11:56:00Z

I’m the judge of a literary contest, so I had a lot to do for that. What Has Lockdown Meant for L.G.B.T.Q. Artists and Writers? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Forty years since it first started, are female writers taken as seriously in the literary world as their male counterparts and given an equal shot at longevity? Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women? 2013-03-14T08:00:02Z

"Reclusive" here means that he avoided literary parties, didn't give interviews and never popped up on television or in lecture halls rattling on about himself. Salinger: a burger-lover in the rye 2011-01-27T23:00:01Z

We should treat works of the creative imagination as different from other forms of literary production. Olive Senior: 'Literature is political because we are political animals' 2013-04-29T15:05:06Z

She made them hungry for more stew: ornate, disobedient, eerie literary inventions about black women, often with nary a white person of any significance in sight. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

I mean, the literary world is dominated by men, isn't it? Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I'm 90. Writing is what gets me up in the morning' 2013-04-06T23:05:23Z

The fame of authors is often mayfly short, but that of literary gatekeepers is even shorter. A daughter’s loving homage to her famed, flawed father 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Translate this pagePowered by Microsoft® Translator This translation facility is being offered as an experiment on coverage of the Man Asian literary prize. Tan Twan Eng wins Man Asian prize 2013-03-14T15:41:55Z

A literary festival for teenagers has been cancelled in Texas after a group of authors withdrew in protest at the organisers' decision to "disinvite" controversial young adult writer Ellen Hopkins. Authors' boycott cancels Teen Lit festival after Ellen Hopkins 'disinvited' 2010-09-07T15:37:00Z

In the Borgesian section called “A Twice-Told Tale,” the protagonist, split into multiple selves, finds himself “trapped inside” a story by Poe, full of literary echoes, doubles and narrative repetition. His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

But you can walk pretty much anywhere in Dublin and find yourself on a literary ramble. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z

Any presumed literary pedigree doesn’t keep director Crane from treating the material with playfulness. ‘Arden of Faversham’: Killing time (and a man) in an entertaining way 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

In this fictional love letter to the pleasures of collaboration, students at M.I.T. and Harvard enter the arena of literary game-building, with hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking results. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

It uses both ordinary language and literary terminology to replace traditional psychoanalytic terms and jargon, although Mr. Phillips’s understanding and theorizing are familiar and generally conformable. ‘Becoming Freud’ Recounts the Psychoanalyst’s First 50 Years 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

“This book deals primarily in archetypes. Those are literary devices, not scientific instruments,” she writes. How Astrology Took Over the Internet 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

The musical is grounded, after all, in the literary prestige of T.S. Review | Love it or hate it, ‘Cats’ the musical has way more than nine lives 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

But there’s no escaping the fact that rooted in our culture’s literary DNA is a proclivity for treating the disrupted family unit as a conveniently poignant narrative device. Films Like ‘The Boss Baby’ Can Be Painful for Adoptees and Foster Kids 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Others admitted to disliking Green’s novel but insisted that the larger Y.A. category contains plenty of books with all the complexity of grown-up literary fiction. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

She was among the biggest crowd pullers at the annual Jaipur Literary Festival, which brings together top writers, poets and critics and around 50,000 literary fans from around the world. Oprah confident Obama will win re-election 2012-01-22T13:26:13Z

The book that inspired this play is a densely literary work that defies classification and would seem to defy translation to the stage. Review: What the Crow Knows in ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Its layout, the dramatic spectacle of life and death it presents to the visitor, helped establish the basic Stations of the Cross for literary museum worship in St Petersburg. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

Of course, many cities have vibrant literary atmospheres. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books," he says, "other than the ones which are created by literary effects. Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible' 2011-08-17T20:30:02Z

Truly long-term literary endurance depends, Jackson writes, on “regular reinterpretation,” and, for that to happen, your writing has to be rich and multi-dimensional. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Not least of these shorter books’ strengths is the way they trample the coyness and elision that plagues so much American literary fiction on the same themes. Murakami’s understated triumph: What Japan’s most celebrated writer knows that American novelists don’t 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

"The question is, how do you turn something that works as a literary experience into something that works as a cinematic experience." 'Fifty Shades of Grey' moving cultural needle despite film's pans 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian I began my literary career with short stories. Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z

Privately, I still balk at the term "literary novel", a commonplace of the book business. Do creative writing courses make novels too 'literary'? 2011-01-10T12:09:17Z

This was my first literary epiphany – it went against everything I'd ever been taught about being good and cultivating only positive qualities. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

There are occasional entries about literary friends like Elinor Wylie, or Millay’s political causes, but a good deal of it concerns the changing seasons at Steepletop, Millay’s beloved country house in Austerlitz, N.Y. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Up to that point, I had worried that the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “August: Osage County” was simply reanimating a tired literary formula. ‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

That piece, set in what seemed to be a derelict mental hospital, is a more explicitly literary head trip, replete with Victorian imagery. Review: ‘The Grand Paradise’ Summons a ’70s Pleasure Palace 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

About 275 artifacts, from bookplates to bedroom sets, document how Esherick befriended literary figures and a few cranks while evolving into a custom furniture maker. Antiques: Furniture as Sculpture: A Craftsman?s Legacy 2010-09-02T20:39:00Z

The Book Club Boutique provides an interesting glimpse into the phenomenon of the new literary event. What a performance 2010-07-30T23:05:00Z

“So much thought about everything appears in the form of literary criticism,” Iris Murdoch wrote in a 1974 letter. Prime Cuts From Jenny Diski’s Catalog of Intimate, Witty Essays 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

With the acquisition, UTA took on the estates of towering literary figures like John le Carré, Ian Fleming, Daphne du Maurier and A.A. United Talent Agency Grows Its Literary Business 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

A nondescript pub off a steep lane between Duckworth and Water Streets, The Ship is the closest thing the city has to an underground literary landmark. Read Your Way Through Newfoundland 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Both big business and an integral part of the literary scene, they’re a magnet for passionate readers. The 5 Best UK Literary Festivals of 2014 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

In China’s densely populated urban centers, enclosed gardens have been part of the architecture, extensions of living quarters, sites for literary gatherings and theatrical performances. The Week Ahead: Aug. 19 — 25 2012-08-17T20:40:22Z

Frazier was also honored last year by PEN America, a literary and human rights organization. Teen who recorded Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer nod 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

Those writers added something special and unique to the American literary landscape. Sonny Mehta, a publishing industry titan, made his mark 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

Writers such as Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams founded the state’s outsize literary reputation, largely by writing about the quirks and horrors of Southern culture, most principally its racism. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

She turned her attention to writing when a drama coach, knowing her family's literary background, encouraged her to try writing as a way to explore character motivations. Higgins Clarks celebrate Mother's Day as best sellers 2010-05-08T19:44:00Z

During McCullers' separation from Reeves, she took refuge in a communal house in Brooklyn that was almost too literary to be true. Overlooked classics: The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers 2012-06-21T14:01:14Z

“This is your literary fix at lunch,” said Jessica Strand, a donor programming manager at the library, who organized the series. ArtsBeat: New York Public Library to Offer Lunch-Hour Readings 2014-03-03T18:26:28Z

The Prix Goncourt, the country’s most prestigious literary prize, is a major annual event. The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

He situates his subject not merely as an anti-establishment writer who influenced dozens of others, but also as the literary godfather of gangsta rap. Review: ‘Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim’ Studies the Life of a Pimp 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Not so most of his fellow literary offenders who seek, I believe, "authenticity". Say 'non' to phrasebook foreign language in fiction 2011-07-13T16:46:52Z

Ellis claims it’s an homage to his literary heroine Joan Didion’s “The White Album,” an allusion that will be lost on almost everyone. Bret Easton Ellis, the political outrage machine who has never voted for president 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

The movie, an uneasy amalgam of horror and allegory, full of creepy, gory effects and literary and mythological allusions, amounts to a sustained and specific indictment of the titular gender. ‘Men’ Review: Putting the ‘Male’ in Malevolent 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

If you want to get scholarly about it, you could stretch the tradition even further, following literary critics like Leslie Fiedler and D.H. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The wife also says something obscene that is “so ugly, yet so arresting” it almost elicits Sasha’s literary admiration. Review: ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow,’ Except for That Illicit Affair 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

How did an obscure 26-year-old doctor achieve the most enduring literary accomplishment of his generation in just six weeks? 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

At a time when writers are profitably testing the boundaries between “literary fiction” and “genre” — science fiction, fantasy, etc. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Photograph: David Sandison/The Independent 's is a carefully wrought literary artefact. John Mullan on The Great Railway Bazaar – Guardian book club 2013-06-07T17:00:01Z

He is undoubtedly one of the most interesting authors on the young literary scene in Spain, besides being an especially lucid and sharp columnist. What they're reading in Spain 2011-03-28T07:00:01Z

If his book sales and literary accolades are any indication, his approach is working. Jason Reynolds Is on a Mission 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

“But that’s OK. I am working in the African American literary tradition. That’s my aim and what I see as my mission.” Interview: Colson Whitehead 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Smith will be among the guests May 23 at PEN America’s annual literary gala, to be held in Manhattan at the Museum of Natural History. Zadie Smith to receive PEN America literary service award 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Another one-player option, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island’s inspiration is one of the most famous literary travel misadventures. 12 board games that allow homebound Americans to travel in their imagination 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

In 2015-16, she was a Fulbright fellow in Ljubljana, Slovenia, working independently as a cultural ambassador on literary exchange between the United States and Central Europe. Kelley McKenna, Bradford Atwood 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

The more conventional literary remains in the archive include more than 450 manuscripts, correspondence and research materials relating to his more than 40 books, numerous short stories and screenplays. Elmore Leonard's Papers (and Hawaiian Shirts) Go to University 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

In the six years between the end of graduate school and the 2012 sale of her first novel, Ng started keeping a color-coded document detailing each time she submitted a story to a literary magazine. Celeste Ng Is More Than a Novelist 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Critics cite many reasons in their dismissal of the genre, reasons that ostensibly aren't rooted in literary snobbery. The chick-lit debate: light doesn't have to mean stupid 2010-08-05T08:39:00Z

Maybe U.K. kids receive a more comprehensive literary education, or maybe it's a cultural thing. Comics: Annotated 'Sandman' enhances Neil Gaiman series 2012-01-05T19:20:04Z

The winner will receive what the shop is calling “the world’s first lifetime literary prize for readers” — one hardcover book a month for life. A New Chapter in Book Prizes: Readers Are the Winners 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Thinking about my experience as a young poet of color, I understand how important my occupancy in literary and cultural spaces is, but I recognize that I am a cis-gendered, able-bodied, heterosexual Chicano. Enrique Garcia Naranjo, on the importance of being Mexcellent 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

With roles in such other forthcoming literary adaptations as Bel Ami and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, that would indeed appear the case. Hawke: 'Hollywood films don't last' 2012-02-17T08:27:28Z

An option is a fee paid to secure the rights, for a limited period, to a literary property. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

“For me, it’s the play, the literary play. And characters, in what I write, they’re necessary to advance the story.” César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

In “King of Cats,” a 1996 profile of Mr. Murray in The New Yorker, Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote that the friendship between the two men “seemed a focal point of black literary culture.” Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

A newly uncovered novel by the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño will get its first English language publication this year in the literary quarterly the Paris Review. Lost Roberto Bola?o novel to be serialised this spring 2011-02-14T13:07:58Z

I recently attended a talk where a leading London literary agent stated that, in his opinion, it is highly unlikely that Kafka would get published as a first-time writer today. Has plot driven out other kinds of story? 2011-07-14T14:49:52Z

This was no way to conduct literary research. No way to treat an author: How Harper Lee lost control of her legacy. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

“It’s embarrassing to ask my friends and writers I admire to work for me, for free,” said Ms. Hunt, a writer of haunting literary fiction. A Novelist Revisits Her ‘Haunted’ Childhood Home 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Fitch: I always think it's going to be my friends, writers, people of intense literary interests. Authors Janet Fitch, Cynthia Bond share admiration for each other's work 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Nothing makes a novel seem more vulnerable, more naked, than an armour-plating of literary references. Adam Mars-Jones: 'The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy' 2012-02-10T13:50:00Z

Novels on subjects ranging from murder in 19th century Scotland to classical music in revolutionary China were short-listed on Tuesday for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, considered one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. Scottish killings and Californian satire on shortlist for Man Booker Prize 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Now, the book is coming into the world, though its father is gone, and once again his colleagues and students, friends and the literary community are coming together — this time, to mark that white wedding.  Les Plesko to be celebrated at UCLA 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Eventually he fused his journalistic skills to the literary voice of the American avant garde — “American” in the broadest possible sense of the word. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: More than magical realism 2014-04-17T23:01:34Z

Last fall, literary fans who found references to Chandler wishing to be buried alongside his wife were able to persuade a Los Angeles judge to bring the two together by approving reburial. Reburial brings Raymond Chandler, wife together 2011-02-15T01:13:08Z

A literary agent, Arthur Pine, encouraged him to put his ideas about erroneous zones — his term for self-destructive behaviors, like regret and anxiety — into a book for popular consumption. Wayne W. Dyer, Prolific Author of Self-Help Books, Dies at 75 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Clearly, these readers — voracious readers — were thrilled to be at an event that embraced their literary passion. Perspective | Stop dissing romance novels already 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

The literary journal Kirkus Reviews announced on Thursday the winners of its first annual book prizes. Lily King, Roz Chast and Kate Samworth Win Kirkus Prizes 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Epstein’s friendship with the literary critic Edmund Wilson led to another publishing innovation. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Collins was supposed to be doing doctoral research on the history of French influence in the Middle East, but he discovered that Damascus’s literary scene interested him more than his dissertation topic did. No Longer Driving a Cab, a Syrian Writer in America Focusses on His Fiction 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

True, surveillance is the territory of a different literary dystopia, George Orwell’s “1984,” but for a moment, the intrusion felt eerie. Reading 'Brave New World' in Aldous Huxley's former home 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Whittling down my favorites to a mere Top Ten was an insurmountable challenge—and there were still so many I didn’t get to, all of them floating in that literary quantum state of potential perfection. The Best Cookbooks of 2019 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

And what are some of the reasons that Houston is such fertile literary territory for you, besides the fact that you live there? Bryan Washington on Writing Stories That Don’t Make You Feel Worse 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Beryl's literary fiction can have a quality of a detective story: only when we reach a novel's final denouement do we see that we were given the key to its coded mystery at the start. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

Industry luminaries, among them powerful literary agents and best-selling authors, testified. Judge Blocks a Merger of Big Publishers 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

Implicit in his refusal was the notion that cooking, as a subject, couldn’t be considered a literary genre. Writing, and Cooking, Across Borders 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

His work began to appear in Egyptian literary journals, like Le Rayon d’Égypte, the magazine of the French Dominican Friars in Cairo. Leaving Aleppo 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

My view is that the great literary masterpieces always lose through adaptation; it's what you might call first-rate novels of the second rank that invariably gain. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z

The show, which has a book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry and music by Robert Waldman, is based on one of Eudora Welty’s most curious literary concoctions. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

You see that so rarely in literary fiction. Go viral, score book deal. 'Cat Person' author sells her debut book in the U.K., with U.S. deal in the works 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

It is a kind of literary origami trick, where the author folds in on herself in tight, dense, intricate coils, then unfolds herself again with miraculous lightness and delicacy. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Not only would monumental writers be missing from your literary tour, but entire angles and moves and structures of which the novel, in its bulk, is incapable. Zadie Smith Experiments With Short Fiction 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

He began writing essays for literary journals and articles for Life and The New Leader, some of which were included in “The Omni-Americans.” Albert Murray, Essayist Who Challenged the Conventional, Dies at 97 2013-08-19T16:57:56Z

The familiar literary theme of the gulf between principles and practice is at its most potent in the case of clergy. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z

“We’re trying to establish her as a writer, a very serious literary writer, so we put her in conversation with authors who are very literary,” said Theresa Zoro, director of publicity for Random House. Turning a Book Tour Into a Literary Circus (and a Hot Ticket) 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Jess and Duncan were magnetic personalities and friends with many of San Francisco's most interesting artists, writers and literary figures. Jess, Robert Duncan: a collaboration both romantic and artistic 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

One of the most welcome features of “Beautiful World, Where Are You” — amid the publicity, the backlash and the noise — is how Rooney has helped place literary fiction at the center of popular culture. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

A Hero's Song lacks a detailed literary programme, though it follows the outline of a symphony, with a funeral march as its slow movement. Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No 9; A Hero's Song – review 2013-04-04T20:29:01Z

Novelist Vladimir Nabokov is not only one of the midcentury masters of prose but also, arguably, our greatest literary cartographer. When Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson went from friends to enemies: 'The Feud' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

But in the background, there was lots of emailing, tweeting, chatting with neighbors and staring distractedly into space, along with some actual literary progress. ArtsBeat: In a Brooklyn Cafe, It's Write! Camera! Action! 2012-11-20T00:06:03Z

As a writer, was it important to you that your announcement about your illness took a literary form? MJ Hyland: why I had to write about my MS 2012-08-11T23:27:00Z

Four years later he received the Franz Kafka Prize, an international literary award presented by the Franz Kafka Society and the city of Prague. Arnost Lustig, Writer of the Holocaust, Is Dead at 84 2011-03-05T05:58:42Z

She also won two national writing contests, was Resident Assistant of the year, an editor of the humor and literary publications and won the annual English department award. Generation B: Generation B: Father and Daughter Bond by Years of Reading 2010-03-18T23:43:00Z

A chirpy school worksheet becomes a commentary on the perils of literary creation. New & Noteworthy, From Suffrage to Sexism 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

So once a week, about 20 of The New Inquirer’s contributors and guests gather at an unmarked clandestine bookstore, a sort of literary speakeasy, in a second-floor three-room apartment on the Upper East Side. New York?s Literary Cubs 2011-11-30T23:21:40Z

After high school, Michael went to Syracuse University but, aspiring to Hemingwayesque adventures and literary achievements, he dropped out to travel in Europe and write. Michael Herr, Author of a Vietnam Classic, Dies at 76 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Still, Elmore Leonard says he's thrilled to receive one of the literary world's highest honors. Author Elmore Leonard wins prestigious book award 2012-09-19T13:26:31Z

The first of these is literary even in content. John Mullan on The Great Railway Bazaar – Guardian book club 2013-06-07T17:00:01Z

What prompted you to create this literary persona? “I reject the word ‘hoax'”: Laura Albert opens up about creating JT LeRoy 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

He said the word puts the books in danger of joining the list of literary classics that Twain once humorously defined as those "which people praise and don't read." New edition removes Mark Twain's 'offensive' words 2011-01-05T12:18:09Z

If this all sounds like a literary version of "six degrees of Kevin Bacon," it is. Facebook: The Novel 2010-06-05T01:58:00Z

As literary critics, as academics, why on Earth wouldn't we want to come to grips with these texts? Harry Potter and the order of the 60 scholars gets mixed initial reception 2012-05-18T14:32:19Z

He worked exhaustedly, hurriedly, "burning my candle at 3 ends", he told Frost, to meet the deadlines of London's literary editors; he felt convinced that he amounted to little more than a hack. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

Yet Shannon’s halting, withdrawn presence in Michael Maren’s “A Little White Lie,” an otherwise atrocious literary farce, burns an unpredictable black hole in the movie’s froth of clichéd exchanges and corny musical cues. ‘A Little White Lie’ Review: The Not-So-Great Pretender 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Among the weighty subjects pondered by literary intellectuals, dance seldom rates very high. Zadie Smith on Dance: ‘It Brings Such Intense Joy’ 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

No, because the premise of “book as guilty pleasure” is that one should not enjoy some books that one does, and it is an idea rooted in the cult of literary snobbery. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Roth won every major literary award except the Nobel, and that omission became an embarrassment not to Roth but to the committee, which one observer suggested was “full of out-of-touch Swedish prigs.” Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

What these artists have in common, of course, is a grandness of intention shaped by certain ideas of what fiction can do and should do for the reader of literary books. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

So it seems that upstairs, the literary magazine that published early Updike and Barthelme had its headquarters — and downstairs was the store that nurtured Mr. Connell, Mr. Kentfield and Mr. Shoemaker. Searching for Evan S. Connell’s Bohemian Sausalito 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

I think there will always be a need for literary agents because an author must have an objective friend. Top 10 tips for being a literary agent 2014-05-10T00:21:16Z

I am far from a literary historian, but I seriously doubt Martin Amis is "the only hereditary novelist in the Anglophone literary corpus." In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

Schuyler was prolific, pugnacious and very much in the public eye; Larsen was recessive, and vanished from literary life after publishing two novels and a few stories. Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Roman, a bon vivant with an earring, devotes himself to helping Guy advance his stalled literary career. Television Review: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Is Remade Into a Mini-Series 2014-05-08T21:12:18Z

Adam Plunkett is the assistant literary editor of The New Republic. Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

In this 19th-century literary and intellectual masterpiece, Ruskin goes into raptures over the facade of the Doge's Palace. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z

He had been exiled from the literary universe that had been the focus of his life. The Complicated Friendship of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert Barlow, One of His Biggest Fans 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The literary adaptation "The Help" debuted solidly at No. 2 with $26 million. 'Apes' rule again with $27.8M; 'Help' grabs $26M 2011-08-15T21:13:12Z

For another, she writes dense, literary lyrics that ask for more than passive participation. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

With her memoirs now rivalling Dirk Bogarde's in quantity if not quality, Katie Price could look to trade up in terms of literary merit. Keith Richards's literary life is the way forward for biography 2010-12-17T11:33:26Z

Poetry Ireland said that “his influence in the Irish poetry community, literary world and society at large, and his legacy, is immense.” Derek Mahon, whose poem consoled during pandemic, dies at 78 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z

Grant me a small literary license to tell the story from east to west. Driving along the Trans-Canada Highway isn’t a road trip. It’s a family culinary tour. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

His shipments eventually became a permanent gift, and the collection grew as his relatives and literary executor sent additional contributions. Thousands of Theodore Roosevelt’s Papers Are Now Online 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

To a great extent Jasper is a literary artist. Arts & Leisure: Ellsworth Kelly, Explorer of Shape, Line and Color 2012-01-20T13:01:06Z

Next week the winner of Britain's leading literary prize, the Man Booker, will be announced. AUDIO: Jim Crace: 'I wanted to tell lies' 2013-10-09T09:55:07Z

The lawsuit in Florida is the latest action from literary groups, authors and parents who are pushing back, seeking to overturn book bans through the courts and with legislation. Authors and Students Sue Over Florida Law Driving Book Bans 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

Nothing quite so blatantly sums up the victory of neoliberalism in 21st-century London, and that city’s relentless commodification of every aspect of its literary and historical legacy, like Platform 9 ¾ at King’s Cross. London as neoliberal theme park: The Platform 9 ¾ economy and the Tories’ shocking victory 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

Remember how innovative and exciting Amazon was going to be, and the announcements that founder Jeff Bezos loved books and wanted to invigorate literary culture? 5 reasons to wish Amazon an unhappy birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Still, with literary sheen and earnest significance that dwarf the grass-blade-worth of story, “In the Middle of the Fields” won’t appeal to everyone. Review | The park setting of ‘In the Middle of the Fields’ is compelling but can’t make up for the sliver of a plot 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

His philanthropic and civic work included support of libraries and other cultural initiatives, including the Literary Landmarks Association, which dedicates historic literary sites. Frederick G. Ruffner Jr., titan of reference books, dies at 88

In my time in Mexico I’d made many friends with Mexican writers, spoken at a number of literary and political events, and found a Mexican publisher. Paul Theroux’s Mexican Journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

A winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's top literary award, Modiano has published more than 30 books, mostly novels. Who is Patrick Modiano, the 2014 Nobel prizewinner? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Num8er My5teries is still intended to work as a traditional literary experience – to provide a place in which to immerse yourself for more than just a few clicks through pages on the web. Liked the book? Try the app 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z

In this full-throated book of essays — the rare example of a collection that coheres into a manifesto — Giraldi argues passionately for literary excellence, comparing modern examples unfavorably with great works of the past. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday evening, the National Book Foundation held a ceremony to announce the winners of the National Book Award, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the country. “This is why we are tired”: Racist remarks mar National Book Award ceremony 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

On the map of an immemorial literary England, populated by butlers, pigs and – over the hills and far away – the Hobbit, Blandings is defined to the south by the Wyre Forest. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z

And we don't have to haunt libraries to encounter this living literary history. Literary London on your iPhone 2010-03-23T09:03:00Z

This collection of correspondence between Lowell, Hardwick and their friends brings this famous literary scandal to life. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Deaver said Fleming's work was important to him, "both literarily and personally." Bond, James Bond, comes back for more in new novel 2010-05-27T23:02:00Z

“Still under Auden’s influence, I wanted to be read by philosophers and scientists and political theorists, not just by literary readers.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z

Part poetry reading, part improv, the Melrose Poetry Bureau adds an element of theater to its live literary show, placing the clack of typewriter keys front and center of a stage performance. What to see at Lit Crawl in North Hollywood on Oct. 25 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

I knew he was a significant literary figure. Elijah Wood’s guide to clean living: “The sensual things in life are what I’m attracted to” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Okri has long been hailed as a literary and social visionary. It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

She published a handful of early stories, but eventually suspended her literary aspirations to face the quotidian demands of farm life and motherhood. Mary Ward Brown, 95, Award-Winning Short Story Writer, Dies 2013-05-22T22:29:16Z

We've had Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we've had Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter – and it doesn't look like the vogue for literary mash-ups based on classic books is going to end any time soon. George Orwell, Mills and Boon writer: taking literary mashups to the next level 2010-05-21T12:28:00Z

It has sold over 10m copies and been translated into 30 languages, making Chang a literary superstar. The Private Life of Pigs 2010-07-22T07:00:00Z

In today’s literary landscape, it’s natural for the Southern Reach books to find themselves grouped together with the broadly ecological, post-apocalyptic stories that are now in vogue. The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

There were, however, no discussions about their famous literary forebears. Tolkien and Dickens descendants collaborate on children's fantasy 2010-08-11T12:24:00Z

"Penny Dreadful" is the latest U.S. television show drawing from Victorian England after shows such as NBC's "Dracula" and Fox's "Sleepy Hollow" also resurrected gothic literary characters for the modern-day audience. Actor Hartnett takes on mystery and monsters in 'Penny Dreadful' 2014-05-11T22:58:16Z

He called some of her picks ''schmaltzy'' and worried about his place in the ''high-end literary tradition.'' Oprah Picks Franzen's 'Freedom' for Book Club 2010-09-16T17:49:00Z

As if following my own crumb trail, the next day I walked the “literary path” through the village, checking the homes that find their place in her writing. The childhood home of lauded author Colette is open to the public in this small French village 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

“The pattern it resembles is what I do,” said Kelly Farber, a literary scout, “which is I get everything.” The Mystery of the Disappearing Manuscripts 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

But San Francisco’s mid-20th-century literary reputation extends far beyond the Beats. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Israel originally met with literary agent David Kuhn to pitch a book on America’s middle class. Rep. Steve Israel, finding the funny in Washington’s corridors of power 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Still, to scatter literary stars against the dark doesn’t, by itself, create the constellation we call a novel, and Doten can leave us indifferent to connecting the dots. Rumsfeld, Rice and Gonzales make cameos in a dark, comedic novel 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

In his letter, Mr. Roth dismisses the conjecture about Mr. Broyard, saying it is "not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip - there is no truth in it at all." ArtsBeat: Philip Roth Goes Public With Fact Check of Wikipedia 2012-09-07T21:55:36Z

But by now Hemingway’s literary star was rising fast. ‘Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars’ Arriving at Morgan Library 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Despite being a literary newbie, Stern appears quite at ease here in the heart of London's art and book worlds and she is well used to finding herself in Groucho-type situations. The hearing world 2010-05-29T23:02:00Z

Emotionally, there doesn't appear to have been any great change after 1837 – some murders still captured the public's fancy and some did not – but there were distinctive political, legal and literary developments. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z

Here, then, a look at the literary heritage of Watts and what it has to tell us about the city in which we live. The literature of Watts 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

At the age of 19, he began working as an agent with International Creative Management, one of the world’s largest talent and literary agencies. She Crumbled the Fortress Around His Heart 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

Near the end of that book, after Kingsley’s death, Amis, still in shock, asked Bellow if he could call him his new father, his literary father. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z

James himself was familiar with the argument that good novels were, for the most part, simple, accessible works that could be spoiled by too much “literary analysis.” Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Kersten, the latest biographer of an iconic American fighter, talks with literary critic Winslow. What to see at the Printers Row Lit Fest 2011-06-03T15:17:00Z

This shortlist achieves the near impossible of combining literary merit with sheer readability. Orange prize shortlist revealed 2010-04-20T08:49:00Z

They weren’t just literary gestures, Waldstreicher argues, but “actions in the drama” of revolutionary America. A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Where the actual Emily Dickinson's work achieved literary eternity by evoking vast and powerful imagery through an economy of words, "Dickinson" flourishes with its sumptuous scenery, costumes and set pieces. Ready, set, bake! Apple's vibrantly witty "Dickinson" layers in the sweetness and spice of fame 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z

The show remains indigestible, both for its leaden literary style and for its substance as the Muslim victory in France leads to regressive, socially repressive policies. Review | Extremism rules ‘Submission,’ but soul swings ‘Three Sistahs’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Janeites may be the Trekkies of the literary world, but their passion is really just a more intensified version of ordinary bookishness. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Bookforum, a literary criticism magazine that closed in December to great uproar in the literary world, will be back in print in August with a new publishing partner: The Nation. Bookforum is Returning, Months After its Closure Was Mourned in the Literary World 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Charles Isherwood, writing in The New York Times, praised her sympathetic, “deeply researched and fluidly readable” account of Wilder’s complicated family life and deeply serious literary mind. Penelope Niven, Carl Sandburg Biographer, Dies at 75 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Chaotic and hypnotic, this unfinished history of the passages of Paris by the German literary theorist Walter Benjamin is unlike any other book about the modern city. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z

"It's a literary interpretation – so yes," he hedges. Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z

For one friend it was the defining literary moment that changed their lives. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

“We put quality literary work steadily online and demonstrated what traditional literary practices would look like in the new media.” Book briefs

The library 100 contains far fewer literary novels than the bestseller list, leaving Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters looking rather lonely, but the most obvious difference is the absence of non-fiction. The most borrowed library books of 2010 2011-02-18T12:49:49Z

The result is a delicious morsel of a romance — literary shortbread. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

He has won handfuls of literary awards including the UK's top crime-writing prize. The Devil and the River by RJ Ellory – review 2013-06-02T08:00:02Z

Witherspoon most recently appeared in two literary adaptations: "Wild," Cheryl Strayed's memoir, and "Inherent Vice," Paul Thomas Anderson's film version of the novel by Thomas Pynchon. Reese Witherspoon will be the voice of the new Scout 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

She has written pieces for The Guardian, The New York Times and The Believer, among others, and the phrase “literary It Girl” has been applied to her more than once. Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Armed only with her sustained ability to notice — the very engine of Cusk’s towering literary achievement — Faye neutralizes his obscenity: “I looked into his cruel, merry eyes, and I waited for him to stop.” Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Foer was hailed as a literary prodigy when, at 25, he published “Everything Is Illuminated” to wide acclaim. New Novel From Jonathan Safran Foer Coming in September 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

“Cabot Wright Begins,” a scathing take on New York’s literary culture, included a merciless sendup of Orville Prescott, a book critic for The Times. James Purdy, a Fabulist Haunting the Fringes 2013-08-26T21:23:20Z

She was quickly cast opposite silver-tongued smoothie Charles Boyer in another literary thriller, Graham Greene’s Confidential Agent, about a Spanish republican trying to secure coal supplies during the civil war. Lauren Bacall: a career in clips 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Hester’s papers—a collection of notes, drafts, and unsent letters—offer rare glimpses of Hester’s written voice, which for years beguiled two literary giants. The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

“The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions,” the foundation announced Monday. Akhtar, Ehrenreich among winners of American Book Awards 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

His reticence hasn’t stopped scholars and literary critics from dissecting his prose and themes. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

She strikes a cozy tone that is the literary opposite of toxic masculinity. When the Aftermath of a Shooting Is as Devastating as the Crime 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Too much attention to factual detail is undoubtedly an impediment to literary art. The lying art of historical fiction 2010-08-06T15:44:00Z

And clearly, Solange has gained the attention of a broad, young, literary community of color. Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Erin Stead, who did the illustrations, said they were very aware of the creative risks involved in taking on the work of such a towering literary figure. A Rediscovered Mark Twain Fairy Tale Is Coming Soon 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

There had never been anything like its instant and sustained literary and commercial success. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Mr. Grahame-Smith, 34, the author of the best-selling literary mash-up “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” went to Bethel High School in small-town Bethel, Conn., where he was harassed and beaten up. Television: MTV?s ?RJ Berger?: Young, Gifted and Getting Even 2010-05-22T07:15:00Z

Years after her peak, down on her luck and consigned to the remainder table, Israel fumbles upon a unique method of acquiring both the income she needs and the validation she craves — literary forgery. Melissa McCarthy, as you haven't seen her: Why her "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" Oscar nod is a thrill 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Roth’s life and literary sensibility differed in many ways from Cheever’s, but Bailey says both compartmentalized their behavior. Blake Bailey’s 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

He took Britain’s highest literary honor from a field of six finalists that included previous Booker nominee Tom McCarthy and Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Tyler. Marlon James wins Booker Prize for novel on attempted assassination of Bob Marley 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

In a statement, President François Hollande of France called Mr. Butor “a great literary explorer” who was “always engaged in a dialogue with the other arts, always in the same spirit of freedom and discovery.” Michel Butor, French Novelist Who Shattered Conventions, Dies at 89 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Of all the monuments to the Alice books, the finest has long been one of the best literary pas de deux in English, Martin Gardner’s “The Annotated Alice.” Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Around these discussions a web of literary relationships – with other poets, translators, editors and publishers – gradually forms. Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer – review 2013-07-12T17:00:00Z

Months later, another literary role followed as Becky Thatcher in Disney’s “Tom and Huck.” Rachael Leigh Cook Was Always Worth the Bet 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Tillinghast set up her own studio in 1884 and was best known for her windows, showing saints and literary figures against backdrops of Mediterranean hills, fluted pilasters and Gothic tracery. Antiques: Rhode Island Americana, Mary Tillinghast and Byrdcliffe Art 2012-01-05T22:29:20Z

Some people have called it a memoir but it’s more literary non-fiction. “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

He also doesn’t engage with any literary critical method later than that of Edmund Wilson and the New Critics. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z

Literacy is taking root across these deep green mountain valleys — it’s now around 60 percent, compared to 3 percent in the 1950s — giving rise to a surprising underdog literary scene. A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Such collisions of hallucinatory images and dour realism—the waltzing priest, the marital argument—are common in Dylan’s work, yet here the literary touches seem less an artful device than a form of extreme emphasis. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

A preface describes the book as a “literary fantasy derived” from Solanas’s biography; “Few facts are known about Valerie Solanas and this novel is not faithful even to those,” the note continues. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

In his later years, Capote started dishing out literary menace, publishing stories in his unfinished novel "Answered Prayers" that exposed secrets of New York's high society. Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

This is not surprising; Watts has a deep literary and cultural history. The literature of Watts 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

The 46-year-old neighborhood fixture looked more like a peddler who sells poems for a dollar than a literary lion. Up Close: Same Old, Same Old 2010-10-20T20:59:00Z

This is Robinson's third novel – his debut, Electricity, was nominated for two prestigious literary prizes. Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson 2010-06-26T23:06:00Z

He and his wife lived in Napa Valley, where, after his retirement from Iowa, he continued his role as a literary Johnny Appleseed as director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference for many years. Jack Leggett, Pivotal Figure in Creative Writing, Dies at 97 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

A literary critic, professor, and poet, Liu Xiaobo had been an unwavering voice against the authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party for more than two decades. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

A: There’s almost this extraordinary brutality to the process of literary adaptation. Is ‘The Little Stranger’ a ghost story or an allegory about Donald Trump? 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Both returned to the United States and worked in Hollywood, bringing back aspects of the coffee culture of Paris’s literary and art circles. Analysis | Coffee makes celebrities human. But it used to make them cool. 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

Michael Holroyd said: 'If you are writing a literary biography you have to try to hide the fact because it's so tremendously out of fashion.' Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z

Mr. Maupin’s literary style is not particularly sophisticated, line by line, but there is poetry in his depiction of the messy disorder of experience resolving itself into satisfying patterns. | 'Tales of the City': When We Were Young and Gay, Under the Disco Ball 2011-06-17T23:12:12Z

To peep into one’s stocking or not — Christmas, Henry James style, in this best of all literary parodies. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

His short story collection was turned down by 38 literary agents. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The crown jewel of this book is “Banjo,” an essay that first appeared last year in the literary magazine Salmagundi. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

And there are more than colleges and literary connections here. Oxford vs. Cambridge: Which one should you visit? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

You are an artist as well as a writer – do you see a difference between the visual and the literary imaginations?It is impossible to separate one from the other. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z

The kids are on board with comics, and so are many publishers, librarians, teachers and literary award givers. Perspective | Don’t be afraid to let children read graphic novels. They’re real books. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

There is angst galore in “The Tutor,” a small-scale musical of family and literary dysfunction now receiving its mainstage debut at the Village Theatre. At Village, ‘The Tutor’ makes music of literary, familial angst 2014-03-26T00:49:46Z

In “Outsiders,” Gordon tells the stories of five visionary women who disdained convention and made literary history: Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf. Group Biographies Give Trailblazing Historical Women Their Due 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mortimer wrote the book with the help of a friend rather than a ghostwriter, said her literary agent, Mollie Glick of Foundry Literary + Media. Up Close: The Return of Tinsley Mortimer, Branding Irons in Hand 2012-03-13T18:22:52Z

Yet how did Wallace achieve his status as a distinct “literary brand?” ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: From David Foster Wallace to Bret Easton Ellis by Way of Faulkner 2011-09-27T18:08:13Z

It’s not the plot of a novel, but the actual experience of Gay Talese, the famed writer and one of the pioneers of a literary style called New Journalism. The ethical dilemmas raised by Gay Talese’s latest article 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

In the literary world, things are a little different. Review: ‘Author: The JT Leroy Story’ Renders a Literary Charlatan 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

From war to politics to social movements to feral literary imaginations, our recommended books this week confirm that chaos is the only constant. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

My work came to the attention of the wider literary scene and was able to shamble further forwards and discover some more opportunities. Writing for love. And money 2013-03-05T12:56:55Z

Istanbul has served as the setting for most of Orhan Pamuk’s novels, is home to his remarkable literary Museum of Innocence, and inspired his acclaimed memoir of childhood. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Auden, therefore, went largely under the radar because he never joined the Party and tended to publish in establishment literary journals rather than the Daily Worker. British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review 2013-03-07T12:00:01Z

The rural mystique and literary flare of Season 1 are replaced with urban brutality and sad nonsense. Review: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Soaks in Mood More Than Logic 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Long before school forces them to learn a bunch of dead literary terms, you’ll be teaching your little fiends about tone, dramatic irony and narrative structure. Reading to your kids on Halloween is sweeter than candy corn 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

Interiority is the perennial challenge when adapting literary novels for stage or screen. Review: In This Eco-Thriller, the Animals May Be Having Their Revenge 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

They help shape the nation's literary tastes and are the visible link between the reader and author. French-style tax breaks are not the way to save the UK's small bookshops 2012-02-08T13:59:00Z

It was like a literary big bang, one that both publishers and readers believed in. Review | All those books with ‘Lie’ in the title are there for a reason 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

In 2002, at the end of a festive January evening, I was made a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, a literary society devoted to Sherlock Holmes. If you love Sherlock Holmes, you’ll love this book 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

The best poet Australia had seen for a generation or two, by his early 30s he lived in partial exile from the literary scene. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Kate Atkinson writes fantastic police detective stories that are also very literary, and tell you something about the world and society, and offer so much more than just a mystery to be solved. Paula Hawkins on 'Into the Water,' her follow up to 'The Girl on the Train' 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Genre's foot soldiers think that literary fiction is a collection of meaningless but prettily drawn pictures of the human condition. Gaiman's choice: shouldn't good writing tell a story too? 2010-06-23T10:41:00Z

Hollinghurst, his literary executor, looked on as people wrote about Imlah, "each of them saying what they thought about him rather as the characters do in the book". Alan Hollinghurst: 'The Booker can drive people mad' 2012-05-19T23:05:49Z

He had published Lucky Jim a decade earlier and was riding the crest of his own literary success. Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I'm 90. Writing is what gets me up in the morning' 2013-04-06T23:05:23Z

How do his narratives move between historical fact and his brilliant literary self-fashioning? Remembering Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, a key witness to the 20th century 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

She knows everyone in the California literary scene, from writers to academics. Alas, farewell to Carolyn See’s wise world of words

King is sometimes compared to Theodore Dreiser, another writer whose novels are automobiles with big roomy suspension systems and for whom literary “style” was an afterthought. Stephen King Visits an ‘Institute,’ Where the Kids Who Enter Can’t Escape 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

The novel, recently translated from the Spanish, won literary prizes in Spain and Mexico. Spare Times for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Simons will publish an essay about her research in the Australian literary journal Meanjin next month. Greer Love Letter to Amis Sheds Light on Relationship 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

There’s plenty of literary love-bombing in the book, which includes interviews with Redding contemporaries and material from biographies, articles and documentaries. ‘Dreams to Remember’ review: An homage to Otis Redding 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

The Skin I Live In is freely adapted from the novel Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet, and the movie toys with literary reference. The Skin I Live In ? review 2011-08-25T13:00:01Z

And, one more difference, Jonathan and I usually talk about other things – anything, actually – other than the literary, craft-based matters we're addressing. In conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer 2012-02-10T09:00:01Z

Though he was born in Washington, D.C., he has lived in Eastern Europe and has studied Chechen literary and political history. Books of The Times: ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra 2013-05-07T20:50:26Z

"As somebody interested in literary criticism, it's pathetic that so-called literary critics are abusing my judges and me," she told the Guardian newspaper. Author Barnes backed for Booker amid literary spat 2011-10-17T14:41:11Z

I also know enough literary sabermetrics to know that the odds of the book being good were not short. J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: We've Read It, Here's What We Thought 2012-09-27T05:01:21Z

A literary journalist, enamored of European writers and artists, Fry was 32 when he arrived in Marseille. In ‘Transatlantic,’ Stories of Rescue and Resistance From World War II 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z

The British novelist has been vocal in her criticism of sexism in the literary world, and yesterday also hit out at the Orange prize, which is limited to only women novelists. AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural 2010-08-20T18:37:00Z

Even if you’re not headed to a sandy, sunny or soothing location, you can craft your own private and portable literary vacation with series that transport you to other worlds. It’s binge-reading season. Here are the genre-bending romance series to fuel your addiction. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

He blogged about it, which led to a publishing deal, which led to his literary home run. Japan falls for novel on management guru Drucker 2010-12-24T12:46:06Z

“If you look at composers or poets, experimentation is the most fun they can have. What’s wrong with the literary world that there isn’t more respect for and enjoyment of experimentation?” James Hannaham wins $15,000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Treasury and State departments to send conservators and archivists to Cuba to help save the literary records. Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library 2013-05-06T16:45:09Z

Our hero, Lucas Pereyra, is an unemployed 40-something writer from Buenos Aires, trapped in a loveless marriage, stifled by the burdens of child-rearing, short on money — and also on literary ideas. A Writer’s Struggle, an Affair and a Pot of Cash Converge in a Novel 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Instead, he used a jazzy rhythm and spoke quickly, in bursts of stammering digressions that mixed repurposed Yiddish with rhetorical turns of phrases that aimed for literary pleasures. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

His argument, Wodehouse declared, was that “the soppiness and overenthusiasm of modern literary criticism is due to the fact that critics are now clean shaven instead of wearing full-size whiskers.” Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z

The genre of "poems about literary festivals" is a fairly narrow one, it seems. Poster poems: the Guardian Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts 2010-06-01T11:07:00Z

But she was regarded as a literary giant long before. Chinese Writer Cements a Legacy 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z

More than two years into a global health crisis that has reshaped society and daily life, Covid-19 is leaving an inexorable mark on literary fiction. The Problem With the Pandemic Plot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

Maybe the phenomenon of Ellis the literary rock star is just a figment of his fans' imagination. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z

That literary festival was founded by Salman Rushdie to foster literary conversation across borders and promote free expression. In Open Letter, 65 Writers and Artists Urge Trump to Reconsider Visa Ban 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Originally a bi-annual prize, it became an annual award in 2010, and still remains one of the largest literary cash prizes awarded in the world. Dylan Thomas Prize contenders wait 2013-11-07T13:25:47Z

What I really wanted to do with the novels was to paint a picture of her: a middle-class, piano-playing drug addict; literary, but debauched and out of control. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z

That Schumer’s book title parodies the popular but highbrow Swedish crime novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is not just some random literary allusion. Reading Amy Schumer: The powerful missed message in “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo” 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

A poetry-loving teacher discovers that one of her young pupils is a literary prodigy, and takes increasingly extreme measures to protect his gift from an indifferent world. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bridwell’s classic character, a bloodhound the size of a house and the color of a fire engine, joined the literary animal kingdom in 1963 with the publication of “Clifford the Big Red Dog.” Norman Bridwell, writer and illustrator who created Clifford the Big Red Dog, dies at 86 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The Goodreads Choice Awards — now in its 10th year — is a massive literary contest, drawing from a membership of 80 million users. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Here are three good choices from this year’s literary harvest: 3 of the year’s best wine books for holiday gift-giving 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

The scandal which surrounded the publication of his third novel, The City and the Pillar, created a squall powerful enough to blow Vidal's promising literary career definitively off course. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z

“A Good Neighborhood” is a pitch-perfect example of how literary endeavors of allyship — not to be confused with indictments of systemic oppression — can limit a novel’s understanding of human behavior. When You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, it won the 2015 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary award. ‘Compass’: Mathias Énard’s brilliant dark night of the soul 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

That undeserved slight certainly had more to do with literary style than moral substance. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Neither overwhelming passion nor literary genius seems quite within his range. | 'Young Goethe in Love': ?Young Goethe in Love? - Review 2011-11-03T23:48:59Z

Born in Australia, James moved to England in 1961, and rose to prominence as a literary critic and television columnist. Clive James is 'saying goodbye' 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

That would be an absolutely extraordinary number in literary circles. Inside the World of Brad Thor 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Fun to read, they are rarely literary treasures. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

There have been so many of these literary zygotes I have lost count. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z

Franzen is a serious author and Freedom is a literary novel – it is not trying to be The Da Vinci Code. Jack Vettriano: postcards from hell 2011-02-11T12:24:33Z

That the festival contains such a breadth of events “makes you feel like part of a literary community,” says Cruz. The book prizes are coming! The book festival is coming! 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

As usual, I’m drawn to the occasional literary allusions that are presented. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Modern literary fiction with a revolutionary theme 5. Where will the reading group revolution take us? 2011-08-16T08:41:20Z

Another sure sign of spring: Awards season in the literary world cranks up. Ivan Doig tops list of NW authors in the spotlight 2013-04-20T23:38:31Z

Like Dada, an artistic and literary wave that began in Switzerland in 1916, Gutai was a movement formed in response to the trauma of war. The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Smith, who rocked the literary establishment while still in college with a partial manuscript for “White Teeth,” opens her fifth novel to the toe-tapping tunes of Fred Astaire’s 1936 musical comedy “Swing Time.” ‘Swing Time’: Zadie Smith’s sweeping novel about friendship, race and class 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

This approach has radical and necessary value for Black writers and writers from other communities for whom the normative patterns of literary representation fail to account for their lived experience. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Casting around for an equivalent literary line of succession, however, proves more problematic. Where did the decadent novel go? 2010-09-29T08:30:00Z

This week in books, literary reaction to the election continues; I’ve got a report from the National Book Awards; and most important, we find out why kids are obsessed with books about hats.  Books: For Jon Klassen, kids' books aren't old hat 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

Just as important, he has also reinvented himself as a literary journalist, reviewing dance performances and editing anthologies of jazz criticism, as well as producing a wonderful, unlikely book about Charles Dickens’s 10 children. ‘Avid Reader’: Robert Gottlieb’s candid look inside the golden era of publishing 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Civilization’s literary man has no time for ambivalence or inner conflict, which get in the way of progress and social reform. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Last week, I recognized Lynch’s literary love in the care with which I put my books on my new office bookshelf. The History of “Loving” to Read 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Some lawyers who act as literary agents receive a 15 percent commission on a book’s advance. Another Drama in Harper Lee’s Hometown 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Moro says he only decided on a more "literary" approach after being rebuffed by his subject's close friends and family. Sonia Gandhi supporters threaten to sue over 'fictionalised biography' 2010-06-03T23:19:00Z

Which is not to say literary necro-leaning is its only aspect. Review | Susan Taubes’s recently reissued ‘Divorcing’ is as haunting as ever 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence. Putting Down the Scalpel, Picking Up the Pen 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

In terms of literary pedigree, the invented cowboy was a late romantic creation. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z

A good sentence in Joyce’s “Ulysses” is not the same breed of literary species as a good sentence in Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” Books You Wish You Hadn’t Read and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

This weekend the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective is sponsoring Creative Commons, a “transmedia literary festival” that explores this paradox. Weekend Miser: Literary Festival by South Asian Women’s Creative Collective 2012-11-29T21:20:46Z

Not surprisingly, my drug of choice soon closed the curtain on my literary intentions. Modern Love: A String of Bulbs Was Our Guiding Star 2010-12-23T21:30:25Z

Recognized as a major literary achievement of the era, Radnóti’s poems form the spine of Mason’s libretto for “The Parting.” A new opera, commissioned by a Seattle group, brings to life the works of a Jewish Hungarian poet who died in the Holocaust 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

In “Antiquities,” the latest of her many books, Ozick employs her virtuosic literary style to weave an enigmatic tale about the ephemeral nature of memory and the transience of life. Review | With ‘Antiquities,’ Cynthia Ozick is as vibrant on the page as ever 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

She was known for her friendships with famous writers, including Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and Harold Pinter, and for underwriting literary magazines and a publishing house. Christie’s to Auction Drue Heinz’s Art Collection 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

And he again brought up Rushdie, whose absolutist, full-throated stance on free speech is looked at askance by many in literary circles. At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Her novels, beginning with “White Teeth” at the turn of the century, have deactivated many of the power instruments of Amis and his literary generation. Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

In that fight, Eliot is rooting for what he sees as the underdog, tradition—the foundational essay of modern literary criticism is fundamentally conservative. A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Reading “Chavs,” I often cursed aloud as if I’d banged my thumb with a mallet, which is how I express keen literary pleasure until I can arrive at something more coherent to say. Books of The Times: Get Your Bling and Adidas Tracksuit, Wayne, a British Class War Is Raging 2011-07-12T20:59:50Z

He is one of the big hubs of our literary community, and you may run into him on the eastern trail by the sewage plant here in Portland like I did recently. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Even for a literary shape shifter like Mr. Faber, who’s written historical fiction, thrillers, satires and three novellas, “The Book of Strange New Things” stands apart. Michel Faber Plans to Stop Writing Novels 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

In Stella, Bennett balances the literary demands of dynamic characterization with the historical and social realities of her subject matter. A Novel Imagines the Fate of Twin Sisters, One Passing for White 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

At the time, Capote was a rising literary star. Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

But the air inside this literary biosphere is not especially pleasant to breathe. Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z

But since Keith Richards has been catapulted into the ether of literary distinction with his memoir, “Life,” Mr. Jagger might want to claim his own turf in the land of high culture. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stage Resuscitation for Career-Challenged Celebrities 2011-05-26T16:16:55Z

Was the story inspired by a particular work in the show, or were you trying to imagine a parallel for that kind of theft in the literary world? This Week in Fiction: Ian McEwan on Literary Crimes 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

"As the leading centre for Beckett studies worldwide, it was a great opportunity for us to bring back one of the most important literary works, hidden for ages, back to the public." Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

In this meditation on the merits of being unseen in a culture dominated by self-promoters, Busch explores the comfort and power of invisibility, its place in the natural world and its enduring literary presence. New in Paperback: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘How to Disappear’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Lange also recorded words on placards and billboards within the photograph itself, following a trail blazed by Walker Evans, a habitué of avant-garde literary circles in New York who loved written language. Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Written by the acclaimed Chilean author when he was 31, this novel tracks two young poets as they wander through Mexico City, seeking the literary life. New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

But no matter the challenges, Murua believes this new generation of literary journals will pave the way for more publications and embolden young Africans to write the next best sellers. The New Magazines and Journals Shaping Africa’s Literary Scene 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

They write intimate, funny, horrifying prose in defiance of literary convention, and of tyranny. Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The authorship of “Double Falsehood” poses a consummate literary detective story, and there is little consensus on whodunit. A Lost Shakespeare? It?s a Mystery 2011-03-11T00:11:00Z

We talked about who was respected for their craft, who was deemed a literary darling, and who was not. Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

We read plays in addition to seeing them realised, and can judge them as literary objects as well as blueprints for action. Why don't playwrights write theatre reviews? | David Cote 2010-03-30T11:38:00Z

A literary medium that dates, in effect, from the mid-18th century inevitably risks anachronism when portraying periods remote from it. The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis – review 2013-05-09T08:01:01Z

“The allegation that I failed to fairly acknowledge the literary contributions of my former wife is wrong,” he said. Ex-wife of ‘Da Vinci Code’ author alleges he led double life 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Out of this spin came a whole literary movement, the Symbolists. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

But it's just silly that this kind of language should be put beneath literary language. Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books' 2013-01-19T17:30:01Z

"Chinese Street Food: Small Bites, Classic Recipes, and Harrowing Tales Across the Middle Kingdom" is a literary culmination of their delectable journeys. Dandan noodles are a Sichuan classic. Learn how to make them at home 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

The writing of “Frankenstein” is the stuff of literary legend. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z

It’s a breezy and propulsive read, a satirical literary thriller that’s enjoyable and uncomfortable in equal measure; occasionally, it skirts the edges of a ghost story. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

The book’s ambition and popularity move interpretation of the war from a relatively minor literary and historical specialization to a much more widespread cultural concern. Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 2012-05-23T22:21:26Z

It’s like a literary version of Pfizer losing its patent to Lipitor: Generic versions will flood the market. Review | For ‘Gatsby’ fans, 2021 will be the start of remakes. First up: ‘Nick’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

But it wasn’t long before the splitting of literary wholes into multiple movies turned into a kind of reflexive, illogical norm. 'Mockingjay': Is it time to end Hollywood's final-book mitosis? 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

They were born within a few years of each other, served in World War II, and achieved literary fame at a young age. William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer: An odd-couple relationship 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

“She writes about such places from what you might call an exalted literary remove. The mode is epistolary, poetic, occasionally honest to a fault … and moral.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

A rarely seen piece, “The Summer Woman,” set in Italy, appears this week in the fall issue of the literary quarterly The Strand Magazine. Rarely seen Tennessee Williams story set in post-WWII Italy 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Craig Taylor, editor of the literary magazine Five Dials, is the author of “Londoners.” In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

For Glück, who has always had a complicated relationship to literary renown, winning the Nobel felt like a long shot, and she found herself unsettled by the news on Thursday. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

If you’re a Krausologist, you know that her books are never about just one topic or person, rather they are a kaleidoscope of references both literary and cultural. Whose line is it anyway? Humor and hopelessness in “I Love Dick” 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

At a mere 580 pages, this novel is roughly half as long as David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest,” the reigning bible for aspiring literary novelists. ‘Book of Numbers,’ by Joshua Cohen: TMI? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

A wooden staircase, buffed by the ages, winds up multiple floors, past displays featuring an idiosyncratic selection of literary fiction and fustily British subjects. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Similar laments were made by fans in the literary community. He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

This heroic sentence is followed by more meditations on war and literature and another pair of references to Joyce, followed by another passage on Hemingway’s own literary ambitions. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

At a literary festival, she finds herself being interviewed by a woman she met once years before. Rachel Cusk Strips the Novel Down to Its Frame. Again. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

They have a slow drawl but quick wits, and they’re not just literate but literary, in a particularly southern way. 'Pretty accurate': S-Towners are proud to be podcasted – except for a few things 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

But Dmitri Nabokov always returned to protecting his father's literary legacy, translating and editing his father's plays, poems, stories, the novella "The Enchanter" and "Selected Letters." Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z

While Logan’s reputation as a hatchet man is well-deserved, his often hilarious vituperations have long obscured his talents as a close reader and literary historian. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

But it is impossible to read about her life without feeling deep sympathy for her and astonishment for the breadth of her literary accomplishments. A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

October is always the high-water mark of the Seattle literary season. Fabulous, famous authors visit Seattle 2011-10-07T21:44:45Z

In 2008 she won the Nike Award, Poland’s highest literary accolade, for “Flights.” Olga Tokarczuk of Poland Wins Man Booker International Prize 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

We live in a majority white country, with a majority European literary tradition both in TV and theatre. Yes the Baftas ignored black actors, but there aren't enough on TV 2013-05-16T15:54:14Z

With this epic novel, Jones, who is known for his blogging and Twitter presence as Son of Baldwin, marks his entry into the literary arena. Review | ‘The Prophets’ reimagines the lives of enslaved people with the epic love story of two men 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

But the literary culture – the creation of reputation, the business of criticism, the nebulous idea of the great writer – still feels more masculine than common sense would suggest it should be. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

Another major literary archive holder is Southern California's Huntington Library, which has expanded its holdings of contemporary writers by recently acquiring the archives of Octavia Butler and Charles Bukowski. Elmore Leonard archive goes to South Carolina 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

A prolific poet — a literary discipline she sees as entirely distinct from songwriting — she has also been a visual artist for longer than she’s been a musician. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z

So thank heavens for literary prizes that cast their net wide enough to look at the independents – they have the power to make invisible novelists visible. Novelists need publishers 2011-08-26T21:55:07Z

A $200,000 gift from an anonymous donor created the fellowship, which is named after the longtime literary agent Charlotte Sheedy. MacDowell Colony Establishes Fellowship for Diversity 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

They are "classics" in being of some antiquity, and because, in addition to being of literary merit, they tell us something of their era. The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z

The publication of “Eat, Pray, Love” catapulted Gilbert into literary stardom and surprise wealth. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z

It coincides with an academic conference over the weekend that will feature the world's foremost experts on the Sidney family's literary works. Early comedy makes 'stage history' 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Geoff Dyer is an idiosyncratic literary observer, a Brit who regularly writes for the London Review of Books. Geoff Dyer on his new book, 'Another Great Day at Sea' 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

In 1979 James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing a work in progress, “Remember This House.” #WhiteHouseSoWhite: “I Am Not Your Negro” illuminates America’s ongoing race problem 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

First and foremost, he relies on the distinction between literary fiction and genre fiction as being one between works of art, on the one hand, and escapism on the other. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

As for Wieseltier, the longtime New Republic literary editor who lost funding for a magazine start-up, he “simply did not consider women to be public intellectuals,” wrote Clio Chang in Splinter. Perspective | Canning O’Reilly and other media men won’t change a thing. Here’s what would. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Godard sees that the life of a couple isn’t just literary allusions and philosophical divagations, and he bears witness to male brutality. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Sometimes, it’s a literary allusion to Persephone heading down to the subway; other times, Emer thinks she might have spotted Sobek with his crocodile head or Golems gathering in abandoned stations. Review | As a novelist, David Duchovny is no Sean Penn 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

After all, the list is dominated by the bigger houses, and I've always thought it's the small presses who concentrate on the innovatively literary. What's still missing from the Guardian first book award list? 2011-07-18T15:22:04Z

When a literary novelist uses genre elements, we expect not a smooth embrace between the different sets of assumptions but a certain amount of productive friction. All That Follows by Jim Crace 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

Modern gossip writers trying to connect themselves to a literary tradition might want to claim the ancient Greek epigram. | A History of Gossip 2010-12-07T16:00:00Z

Even the 150 or so submitted for the Man Booker prize every year—supposedly the cream of literary publishing—are a mixed bunch. Scout grows up 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

But it wasn’t until he released “The Underground Railroad” that he became a genuine literary phenomenon. Colson Whitehead’s Next Novel Tackles Life Under Jim Crow 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

They remind us that the source material is literary. 'Winnie the Pooh': Stuffed with sweet, silly old adventure 2011-07-14T19:30:04Z

In 2019, though suffering from the macular degeneration that had stopped his tennis game, he set up a new literary agency on his own.Mr. Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z

The Selector’s knowing observations give the play a feeling of literary depth, but they also distance us from the characters’ quandaries and passions. Idris Goodwin’s ‘How We Got On’ at Forum Theatre

It is hard to write a literary account of Ted Hughes without writing about the life, as many authors have found. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

After Dickens, Chesterton — the apostle of tradition, paradox and joie de vivre — seems the most Christmas-y of writers, and yet he’s far more than a literary Kriss Kringle. Review | Looking for a seasonal tale of mystery, murder and ghosts? Here are 9 books just for you. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Wells--an unknown nobody-- witnessed and reviewed for the Pall Mall Gazette the disastrous opening night of Guy Domville, and by the time James recovered from his deep depression, Wells was an established literary phenomenon. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

A literary form, after all, is as much a product of its age as anything else, and so it is vital not to get it wrong. The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis – review 2013-05-09T08:01:01Z

But even in Japan, the dunes are more famous for their literary connotations than as a travel destination. Where Sand Dunes and Camels in Japan Evoke the Sahara 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

As in Philip Roth’s “The Ghost Writer,” a young man with literary aspirations — in this case, an editor instead of a writer — finds himself torn between two rival father figures. Review: In ‘Muse,’ the Publisher Jonathan Galassi Writes What He Knows 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

It would also illustrate his public devotion to human freedom, and his eternal literary alliance with the underdog. Ken Burns' vicious Hemingway smear: PBS series totally ignores writer's lifelong leftist politics 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

Smith is one of today’s literary lights, and her novel has the flow of Fred and Ginger in “Swing Time,” the movie that gives this novel its name. The 10 most important books of 2016 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Publishers needn't always be vilified for aiming to publish books that sell well – that is, of course, how they finance the literary ones that don't sell well at all. Orange prize 'grimness' is not the fault of women novelists 2010-03-18T12:00:00Z

From the first, Derek’s writing reminded me of that wonderful line of Marianne Moore’s, in her review of Ezra Pound’s “Cantos”: “These Cantos are the epic of the fairings of a literary mind.” Derek Walcott, a Mighty Poet, Has Died 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Though he’s a strong and resourceful singer, his endeavor is a literary one as much as anything else. Rubén Blades at the Rose Theater 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Thom’s riffs about God and despair echo early Woody Allen movies — adolescent introspection leavened with highbrow literary references. Review: Showtime’s ‘Happyish’ Is Funnyish 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s a little bit fungible, and has been in literary history,” he said, “and that feels so appropriate for this book.” A Sibling Disappears, and the Mystery Repeats Itself 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

I certainly don’t think most modern literary criticism is accessible to a non-academic reader, but this book is older and so it’s written for a generalist, rather than a specialist. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

There is an old literary tradition of turning what used to be called the Passions into characters, and “Inside Out” updates this tradition with brilliant casting. Review: Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Finds the Joy in Sadness, and Vice Versa 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Woolf's friends, family and literary peers all feature in the show, which will run from 10 July to 26 October. In pictures: Virginia Woolf portraits 2014-04-03T13:07:29Z

Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian Collecting lyrics from the more literary end of pop songwriting into a book is nothing new. Paul Muldoon: a life in poetry 2013-03-31T05:59:01Z

Matilda is a 5-year-old prodigy whose enthusiasms include mathematics, foreign languages and literary fiction, from “Crime and Punishment” to “The Cat in the Hat.” The Matildas Keep Growing Up, but the Musical Stays Sly 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

There's a literary sensibility, and intelligence, a refinement, and interest in a life in the mind. Jacqueline Bisset on her latest film and career typecasting: "They would say I was too pretty" 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

She tells us about rediscovering the funny side of the father who was spirited away from her as a child by his sudden literary celebrity. Guardian Books podcast: Humour and Kurt Vonnegut 2012-11-23T14:38:57Z

But research by Jane Mackenzie in the January to March issue of Mslexia magazine demonstrated that the coverage of books in the literary pages of the broadsheets overwhelmingly under-represented women and lionised men. Bidisha: I'm tired of being the token women 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z

After all, Poe's most famous literary creations tend to be unsympathetic villains. How Edgar Allan Poe became the darling of the maligned and misunderstood 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z

That the old world is a mere sideshow to the main literary event, and it's all about the new world now? European fiction: dry and academic? 2010-08-16T15:22:00Z

“Cover Her Face” was followed in 1963 by “A Mind to Murder,” in which Dalgliesh is summoned from a literary dinner to investigate the stabbing death of an employee at a psychiatric clinic. P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94

Only one top-five e-book, “The Tiger’s Wife,” the story of a young doctor who confronts dark secrets in a Balkan country, could be called literary fiction. The way we read now: Top 5 e-books at Seattle-area libraries 2013-03-22T22:59:26Z

It takes its title from the perfervid 1912 lyric that thrust its winsome author to the center of the literary scene. Review: ‘Renascence’ Introduces a Thoroughly Modern Millay 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Some of the best and wittiest literary gladiators have confronted President Trump in fiction. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

He made it his mission to make culture accessible to the masses, often seeking inspiration in literary greats for his films, and producing operas for TV audiences. “Romeo and Juliet” director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

I’d also read enough “trip reports” online and in books to be acutely aware of the literary risks — what Arthur Koestler, a skeptic after his own psychedelic experiments, described as “pressure-cooker mysticism” and “cosmic schmaltz.” How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

There have been a few occasions, however, when a movie actually turns out better than its literary predecessor. 9 movies that were even better than the books they were based on 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Iain M Banks's novel Use of Weapons has a narrative structure that, if it were not a work of science fiction, would qualify it as the most "literary" of literary fiction. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-20T21:55:02Z

She majored in philosophy at the University of Havana, and in 1948, the year she graduated, won a prestigious literary prize for one of her short stories. Delia Fiallo, Master of the Telenovela, Is Dead at 96 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

There was so much chatter around it in literary circles. Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s Week: Fireside Chats and ‘Bridgerton’ Episodes 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

You sense a literary interest not really expressed in paint — or, at any rate, not in these paintings. ‘Dubuffet/Barceló' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

All four of those films, and a vast majority of Mr. Oliveira’s oeuvre, were based on literary or theatrical texts. Manoel de Oliveira, Pensive Filmmaker Who Made Up for Lost Time, Is Dead 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

“Schlöndorff made a good film, even though he didn’t follow the literary form of the book,” Grass responded. Gunter Grass' 'The Tin Drum' a piercing work of literature and film 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

But just before “One Second” was released, she said, the literary adviser called to say that the Chinese government had ordered for her name to be removed from the credits. A Novelist Says a Movie Fails to Credit Her. The Film World Shrugs. 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

It seems to be often the case in “literary” stories that a writer backs away from the final dramatic action. This Week in Fiction: Antonya Nelson 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Toward this end he became a literary agent and an editor, both before his 20th birthday. Frederik Pohl, Worldly-Wise Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 93 2013-09-03T16:42:10Z

“More than other Irish literary icons, James Joyce continues to command such revels because his work—particularly ‘Ulysses’—is a minefield of new riches, new explosives, each time we return to it.” Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

But I'm very glad to have encountered a familiar writer in this unexpected context, and has left me eager to find more unlikely literary landmarks. Meeting John Steinbeck in Somerset 2011-07-19T13:15:15Z

“Novel coronavirus” — in the literary sense — already conjures contempt and exhaustion, but why? In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

No one’s ever claimed that the Book of Mormon rivals the literary achievements of the Bible or the poetic grace of the Koran in Arabic, but I was still surprised by the tedium. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

But fairly soon after her death, it was noted that not a word referred to her literary achievements. A London day trip to Winchester, England’s former royal capital 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

I am online all the time and Twitter is my book, my literary stream, since 2009. In the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei’s Father Burned the Family’s Books 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

“Lulu,” the concept album collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica, is a bold, daring and powerful musical explosion of literary aggression. “People enjoy talking sh*t”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett defends “Lulu,” the band’s daring and notorious Lou Reed album 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Another challenge, of course, is the language barrier, Heinke Hager, an agent at Graf & Graf, an important literary agency in Germany, said. Writing Again, After Fleeing Syria 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

He added, “There is a false idea of literature among historians like Paxton, who don’t imagine that writers can possess a distinct literary knowledge, including writing about historical events.” Coloring History’s Gray Areas, With Strong Moral Outrage 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Rex/Pepijn Leupen Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn. Donna Tartt to publish first novel for 11 years 2013-02-13T16:34:51Z

This sprawling literary/historical mystery springs from a real event: a deadly explosion on New York's Wall Street in 1920. Tops in crime fiction: Best mysteries of 2011 2011-12-07T23:39:04Z

In Shikoku dialect, Hoyaken means “but anyway,” and there at the bar, chopsticks rested on a perfectly still peanut shell, while sake and literary conversation flowed. In Japan, Haiku on the Rocks 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

For his own amusement he labored over images of his 19th-century literary idols — Dickens, Thackeray. Bradley Craft turns literary characters into caricatures 2012-02-18T00:26:31Z

Last January an appearance by Rushdie, 65, at the Jaipur literary festival was cancelled after protests from local Islamic groups and threats from some activists. Drop Salman Rushdie supporters, Jaipur literary festival told 2013-01-21T17:48:28Z

Formerly known as the Literature Prize, the Folio Prize was first announced in 2011 amidst a row in literary circles about the decision by Man Booker judges that year to focus on "readability". First Folio Prize judges announced 2013-07-16T07:35:59Z

On a literary male writer’s inability to create realistic female characters: “His women are all temper . . . and tampons.” ‘The Silkworm’ by J. K. Rowling, as Robert Galbraith 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Dodgson makes a sound case that Kesey’s fascination with magic and performance — and tremendous drive — are key to his later literary success and counterculture status. Ken Kesey bio: Journey from farm kid to Merry Prankster 2013-12-24T21:27:41Z

Are literary mashups, combining different literary genres, an exciting new way of creating fiction - or vandalism, zombies preying on dead texts? AUDIO: Pride and Prejudice... and zombies 2012-08-23T13:22:58Z

To the great benefit of the reading public, Prose is a prolific literary figure. High Praise for a Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The rest of my reading experience was less moist, but when was the last time that literary criticism yielded an emotional reaction other than faint horror or muffled cackling? Books and the ‘Boredom Boom’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Birmingham describes his lively literary history as a "biography of 'Ulysses'" that "revisits a time when novelists tested the limits of the law and when novels were dangerous enough to be burned." Get ready to celebrate Bloomsday on June 16 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

But Bazaar has been responsible for a fair share of luxury fashion’s visual and literary legacy. Samira Nasr, a fashion first at Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I just want to bring more people with me to the party’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Boyle, in a 2008 essay in the Los Angeles Times, called him "one of the true literary zealots of our time." Longtime LA beat poet Scott Wannberg dead at 58 2011-08-24T22:22:11Z

That such comparisons come to mind makes Julian look less than fully drawn, rather like a literary creation of the passionate young scholar he is when the play begins. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Surprised by 'Betrayal' 2011-07-13T16:31:48Z

That was the book that gave literary novelists the permission to write in an area that had previously been the domain of pulp novels. Will Shakespeare survive the apocalypse? 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

I think about literary and cultural criticism all the time. Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z

As if in defiance of her subject's literary gifts, Hall consistently skirts his glorious cadences in favour of dry synopses, and hauls in legions of leaden-tongued scholars to bolster her analysis. Macaulay and Son: Archtects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall - review 2012-12-21T22:55:02Z

Indeed, Frank's canny ability to evoke pictorial and literary imagery in ways distinctively her own made for vivid and bracing aural adventures in Tuesday's performances, which were introduced by the composer-pianist. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z

It was both a literary and a practical suggestion. “Welcome to my kill”: An ex-vegetarian’s adventures in elk hunting 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

Each of these critical and commercial breakthroughs can be traced to the work of one independent literary agent: Joseph Lee, of the KL Management agency. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

"The book is a literary book. Katherine Dunn is a literary writer with commercial overtones. Everybody is noting its originality," Friedman said. Katherine Dunn has died; the 'Geek Love' author once took the world by storm 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The antique books — and maybe the baroque effects — show the influence of Ms. Sander’s partner Dickie Mommsen, whose taste is literary and musical. Jil Sander Bathes in the Glow of Uniqlo 2010-06-07T11:40:00Z

In a 2012 interview, Roth said he had asked his literary executors to destroy his private papers after Bailey completed his book. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Kelly talked of a literary culture bound around a nation that itself had "come into being through forms of ". This week's arts diary 2011-08-23T21:01:01Z

Less than a week into her role as North Carolina’s poet laureate, Valerie Macon, a self-published poet and state employee, resigned over questions about her literary credentials and qualifications. North Carolina's New Poet Laureate Bows Out 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

She was talking about her own beauty salons, not the sort of literary gatherings associated with Gertrude Stein. Celebrating Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The literary historian Richard Darnton writes that, in going through Rousseau’s fan mail, “one is struck everywhere by the sound of sobbing.” The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Watt’s literary science fiction is engaging and stunningly bleak, but he asks all the right questions about our evolution. Best new science fiction and steampunk

They can also offer a penetrating look at the personal lives and reflections of the literary visionaries who compose such works. Sunday Reading: Writers’ Journals 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

It’s as if we readers are taking a trip to Cambridge, Wales and Venice, too, and encounter in the local pubs a few witty, quirky locals who just happen to be literary scholars. Review | Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charming new novel about friendship and the literary life 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Among a certain segment of the scrolling classes, art and literary division, firing up their tablets and smartphones each morning has taken on aspects of a whodunit. Who Is rg_bunny1: An Instagram Whodunit 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Speaking at the Henley literary festival, Hawking added: “I found that very irritating and I didn’t want it to happen. Don’t ever believe what you see in films.” Stephen Hawking's first wife intensifies attack on The Theory of Everything 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

In this latest addition to the superb City-Pick series of urban literary guides, Reyes offers ample evidence to back up her claim, including many modern passages translated for this volume. St Petersburg by Heather Reyes, Marina Samsonova and James Rann – review 2012-11-20T13:50:01Z

Lookingglass’ buoyant staging honors a literary masterpiece by stretching the company’s theatrical vocabulary almost to the breaking point. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

So too in giving literary prizes – and certainly in judging them – we are attempting to select and to distinguish what is abidingly excellent from that which is not. Rick Gekoski: It takes judgment, not taste, to pick a Booker winner 2011-08-26T13:25:14Z

Dashing and cleverly imagined, it is a mystery wrapped in a hoax, part literary parody, part case study of the slipperiness of narrative and the seduction of a good story. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Who says you can't make money going to a literary festival? A ?6,000 Auden bargain 2010-07-16T14:34:00Z

His literary Eureka moment came during a visit to his sister in Australia, when he took his 12-year-old nephew Jared to a bookshop. Robert Muchamore: 'I sound like a smug git, but I am proud of what I've done' 2011-07-21T10:40:34Z

As flattering as it is for our nation’s novelists to be invited into the U.K.’s literary arena, Americans don’t need any encouragement to trumpet their own books. Dear Britain, please take your Booker Prize back home. 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and “The Rubaiyat” are among the movie’s literary references. How ‘Pandora and the Flying Dutchman’ Still Casts a Spell 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Profound answers about timeless questions were not reached, but the participants all agreed on the trilogy's literary merits, or lack thereof. ArtsBeat: Erica Jong and Others Discuss What Women Really Want From 'Fifty Shades' 2012-07-26T20:35:32Z

Fusing page, stage, and sound into a literary and theatrical experience that builds community through storytelling. Love live storytelling? These 8 podcasts tell the good, bad and mortifying truth 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

But in another way I think Talking Heads are a very literary band in their fundamental stance, their ambivalence and sense of inquiry. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

"It's a conversation between the director and Dostoevsky – in a strange way very faithful to the text … I certainly don't agree that literary adaptations are a lesser form of cinema." Cannes film festival set to honour the bookworm 2012-05-18T17:11:09Z

The biggest literary story of the week was undoubtedly the revelation that JK Rowling had published a crime novel under a nom de plume. Your weekend reading: JK Rowling, literary prizes and Australian short fiction 2013-07-21T00:22:47Z

The genre-defying historical novel can come in the form of a crime novel, a romance, a political thriller, a biography or a literary novel. The Edinburgh literature festival that could change history 2013-04-11T15:28:06Z

Whether or not that's the case, the essay is certainly the first known instance of the notion of the "stream of consciousness" making its appearance in the literary domain. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore 2011-07-08T21:55:11Z

Of course, just because literary historians can't find anything to do with those lost seven years doesn't mean Shakespeare couldn't. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

It was about how the promotion of young literary talent took place in Concord, Mass., and how the growth of creative writing happened within this enclave, this literary circle. Inside Creative Writing’s Premier Talent Factory 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

He then describes the more literary aspects of his method. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z

While some inclusions are either essays or explicitly works of criticism, the collection includes a variety both of literary works — poems, short fiction, satires — and of historical documents. Book Review Podcast: 'Shakespeare in America' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The cause was an intestinal blockage related to a blood disorder, his editor and literary executor, Evan Jones, said. Daryl Hine, 76, Poet, Editor and Translator 2012-08-25T03:43:30Z

They had a fine run of literary hits with Wilde, Sylvia and The Edge of Love. Capitol Films: home to great-sounding movies you'll probably never see 2012-11-25T20:30:04Z

Lessing's departure into science fiction in the late 1970s raised some predictably snobbish responses from literary critics, one writing that she "propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz". Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z

The literary vocation that awakens in Apu, who leaves university midway through due to lack of funds, is parallel to Satyajit Ray’s—for a while. The Miraculous Apu Trilogy 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

She traced her artistic roots to the literary tradition of her native South. Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer-winning poet who illuminated divorce and death, dies at 57

The ending at the beach is very literary which opened me up to a new kind of storytelling. Rebecca Thomas picks 5 great coming-of-age movies 2013-03-08T01:31:08Z

Handy quotes liberally from each book he admires, and he curates those passages beautifully, allowing readers both literary pleasure and a kind of time travel. A Personal, Breezy Tour of Classic Children’s Books 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

She said she had felt a literary calling from an early age. Ama Ata Aidoo, Groundbreaking Ghanaian Writer, Dies at 81 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

Share is the senior editor of Poetry magazine, the venerable Chicago-based literary institution. Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism 2011-06-20T21:14:00Z

It’s a literary adaptation, though hardly a faithful one, truer to the spirit than the letter of Jack London’s intellectually rambunctious 1909 novel. Old Masters and Fresh Surprises at the New York Film Festival 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The art crowd and the downtown literary set also adopted Forlini’s as a canteen. It’s Closing Time at Forlini’s 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Let’s talk about this book as a literary work, not just as a book with emotional or spiritual significance. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

It was the first Decades Ball benefit gala for Lapham’s Quarterly, a heady magazine with at least one foot firmly planted in the literary past. Scene City: Decades Ball Benefits Lapham?s Quarterly - Scene City 2012-05-17T20:05:37Z

All were published previously in excellent literary journals. ‘Half as Happy’: Love, grief and loss on the domestic front 2013-06-12T22:38:10Z

In England, literary tourism took off at the end of the 18th century, just before Dickens was born. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

It was an enormous task, taking these heady ideas, rooted in both history and literary traditions, and adapting them to a TV show that has zombie armies and fire-breathing dragons. "Cripples and bastards and broken things": Why the "Game of Thrones" ending was nearly perfect 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

She offered life advice as resonantly as literary analysis. Toni Morrison’s former students reflect: ‘She had this physical presence, this voice, that just took up space in this very magical way’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

After all, the novel had received the highest praise from some of the more influential literary organs in America. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z

A small girl, quizzed about writing stories, is presented as if it is an intense discussion at a literary festival. Monkey Bars – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T10:54:39Z

Too many musicians are deified these days – I've met a lot of them and have often been let down – but I think his intellectual interests and his continued influence warranted a literary treatment. 'If I had known Richey Edwards there's no way I could have written it' 2010-09-20T14:01:00Z

He wants to make movies and has optioned some of his more literary clients’ books, including Austin Grossman’s “Soon I Will Be Invincible.” Luke Janklow: Not Exactly Bookish 2013-06-14T20:57:36Z

Novels about the fate of nations tend to be complex affairs, as if the most appropriate literary response to generations of colonialism, violence and bad politics is Henry James’s proverbial “loose baggy monster.” Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

A few of the more polished passages bring to mind what Didion could do at her height — the literary journalism from El Salvador, the defining pieces about California’s culture of ennui. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

In these poignant yet often bitingly funny chapters, Solomon affirms her descent from the African American foremothers who claimed the Black female experience as their literary turf in the second half of the 20th century. Review | ‘The Days of Afrekete’ is a bitingly funny novel with echoes to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Many of the country's literary stars are published by Indian or international houses. Book festival aims to restore Lahore's cultural tradition 2013-02-01T15:33:25Z

Put differently, how could this most literary of novels also be such a thrilling page-turner? Rereading: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi 2011-01-04T14:26:37Z

It was easier to pretend that literary judgments were stable and universal. Beyond Good and Awful: Literary Value in the Age of the Amazon Review 2012-02-08T18:49:05Z

The Netflix series is a stellar example of how a classic literary work's plot can be streamlined, and its characters' motivations tweaked to better serve the TV audience without losing any of its intellectual heft. How the conscientious casting of women in "The Sandman" defies the gender-swapping trope 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z

He's not the only one; this odd coalescing of philosophical brilliance and literary ineptitude is more common, I reckon, than we imagine. What Philip K Dick needed was a co-author 2010-06-04T15:07:00Z

While older texts regularly get updated when they are reprinted, publishers and estates have in recent years begun to search literary classics more systematically to find and alter passages that might offend readers. As Classic Novels Get Revised for Today’s Readers, a Debate About Where to Draw the Line 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

As a recent Radio 4 debate highlighted, Britain has very high standards but also rather boring ones, hemmed in by newspaper conventions and lacking much literary ambition. Sports writing just isn't our field 2010-06-15T09:59:00Z

The next gallery includes a portrait of Napoleon III finished days after he died in exile in England, and two of Princess Mathilde, a cousin of the emperor known for her literary salon. Art Review: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French Artist of Multiple Passions 2014-03-27T22:29:43Z

Most literary critics would be too self-conscious to write a passage like his Swift-swoon about their own favorite author, much less a millennial pop star. Taylor Swift joins Rilke in Michael Robbins' 'Equipment for Living,' reviewed by Justin Taylor 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The annual award, one of the world's most prominent literary prizes, will be handed out at a glitzy dinner in London on Tuesday, and the build-up this year has been dominated by 60-year-old Mantel. Mantel could make history with Booker Prize double 2012-10-12T10:32:48Z

Ms. Smith is clearly game for anything, and chasing her obsessions, which are mostly literary, she winds up in curious places. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

She signed with a literary agent and drafted a novel, “Forever, Interrupted,” about a man and woman who, like Reid and her husband, met and eloped in a matter of months. Her Books Show the Lifestyles of the Fictional and Famous. She’s Poised for Some Fame of Her Own. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Well and what makes us different, too, is that I don't want to necessarily mock the stuffiness of some of the hallowed literary institutions. Inside "Taco Bell Quarterly," the seriously delicious literary magazine honoring the fast food chain 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

The Clifford family was also linked with another literary family, the Sidneys, whose matriarch, Lady Mary Dudley Sidney, knew several languages. Exhibition Review: ?Shakespeare?s Sisters? at the Folger Shakespeare Library 2012-02-23T23:43:59Z

Farry largely skirts the ethics question, preferring to focus on a kind of literary payback instead. What do writers owe their subjects? 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

As familiar as those from the Bible, these stories saturate our literary history, in renditions and translations, allusions and transformations. Turning Circe Into a Good Witch 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Whitehead, who is married to Julie Barer, a literary agent, grew up in Manhattan, where his parents ran an executive recruiting firm. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

The entire literary establishment is due for a meaningful and dedicated cultural shift. The real reason Latinos are overlooked during National Poetry Month 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

She's pretty sure that even if one of the non-thriller novels had been signed, she would have ended up on the same literary pathway. Ruth Rendell: a life in writing 2013-03-01T10:00:01Z

Smiley is that rare three-fer: meticulous historian, intelligent humorist and seasoned literary novelist. Jane Smiley brings 'Some Luck' to readers 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Today, when most prizes for literary fiction are limited to book-length works, the major science fiction awards — the Hugos and the Nebulas — include short fiction categories. The Fantasy Master N.K. Jemisin Turns to Short Stories 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

They represent one of the best things about contemporary culture, the ability of anyone, anywhere, to create beautiful and thought-provoking presentations of literary art. Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

It's widely recognised, of course, among serious readers that literary awards are ridiculous anyway. Impac prize shortlist fails fiction in translation 2011-04-12T16:11:04Z

The premise — and there really isn’t much more — is that literary fiction is at its best when the details of character and place remain vaguely painted. Peter Mendelsund releases two books, including one that’s worth your time

The three partners met through literary and zine festivals held throughout Southern California. A visit with Other Books in Boyle Heights 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

He is, after all, that rarest of creatures — a literary craftsman who also sells books. Kazuo Ishiguro is a rarity and now a Nobel Laureate 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

To delve into the city’s literary history, order a drink at The Horse You Came In On, the last place where native son Edgar Allen Poe was seen alive in 1849. These Are America's Best Cities for Historic Sites 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Cannon and Reed helped found a multicultural publishing house and Reed was among those involved with Cannon’s “A Gathering of Tribes,” a literary publication, art gallery and arts organization. Steve Cannon, writer and patron of the arts, dead at 84 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

The next year they moved to Inwood in Manhattan, spending the bulk of their time teaching, writing and editing the literary journal Ms. Madden founded, “No Tokens.” Their Story Wrote Itself 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

There is some casually deft literary observation in these letters. ‘Selected Letters,’ Norman Mailer’s Correspondence 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Me, you, my friends, the newspapers, the committee for good literary taste may or may not like it; that's not relevant, because art can be ugly and yet be art. Can Agatha Christie be political? 2013-05-27T15:14:54Z

While her husband ran the store, Ms. Howorth attended to the social side of the operation, opening their Victorian home to any writer who drifted into town and presiding over a nonstop literary salon. A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Not "O Hamlet" but O'Hamlet: Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark, according to literary , derives his peculiar name from ancient Irish origins. Was the great Dane Irish? That is the question 2011-03-03T00:01:02Z

But following a protest from the publisher, the commission reread the book and recognized its literary value. S.Korea lifts ban on graphic Marquis de Sade novel 2012-10-15T11:38:15Z

Ms. Piñon is widely regarded as one of Brazil’s greatest contemporary writers, admired for her masterly use of Portuguese and her playful approach to literary form. Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

The moral and existential danger of tiredness is a widespread modern malady, but an unusual literary subject. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

He shows the important literary influences on Fitzgerald, writers like Joseph Conrad, who was terribly important to the eventual shape of Gatsby. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z

But as everyone knows, chaps are heavyweight colossal conceptual geniuses of quite massive greatness and literary ladies are clever little fairies, handstitching our charmingly personal tiny tales out of skirting-board dust and featherweight neuroses. Bidisha: I'm tired of being the token women 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z

“It’s going to be in literary novels simply because there’s no way around it, if you’re writing a socially realist novel.” The Problem With the Pandemic Plot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

Yet here I am, grouped with some of the nation’s outstanding literary figures, invited to speak at this year’s Library of Congress National Book Festival. Diane Rehm on stepping away from the mic for her book: ‘I just had to write.’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Abbey is not just a writer whose books you read; he is a literary cult figure who has followers. The real Grizzly Man: No one knows brown bears like Vietnam vet, monkey-wrencher, wild man Doug Peacock 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

A meeting between two of the greatest literary figures, Dickens and Dostoyevsky, is one that tends to hold in the imagination. Your weekend reading: hoaxes and imitations, and a 12ft tall Mr Darcy 2013-07-14T00:50:17Z

Victoria, the mysterious character at the center of this literary thriller, was killed on Sept. 11 while meeting with her lawyer in one of the towers. 8 New Books Coming in December 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

These days, if you’re looking for literary shocks and shivers, you need to check out the specialty presses. Michael Dirda on horror and specialty presses

To have real literary clout, the secretary needed to marry her Great Man. Without the great secretary-wives, who will guard great writers' archives? 2012-11-13T20:15:19Z

I have a good feeling about Richard E Grant as Jack Hock, the somewhat pathetic friend and enabler of Melissa McCarthy’s literary forger in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

It’s impossible to begrudge such a person a few literary victory laps. Real Worlds, Possible Worlds and Fantasy Worlds 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

When the was launched in the early 1980s, there were just three literary festivals in the UK, whereas now there are more than 400. Directing the Edinburgh international book festival: Nick Barley 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

They sound like incommensurate traits — one is inventive and literary, the other is bland and technocratic. In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

I joined a Zoom group of around 20 Byron Bay-based writers for an old-fashioned literary salon. Arts in lockdown: I curated my own three-day online festival. Now it’s over, and I am wrecked 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

If the literary achievements of the Review were remarkable, its political life was perhaps still more so. Postscript: Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Little Rock native Nichols’ new film, “Mud,” is thematically akin to those earlier works, though broader in ambition and boldly inspired by some of America’s richest literary archetypes. ‘Mud’: Roiling in a river of obsession 2013-04-25T00:52:12Z

More to my taste, however, are some literary inclinations I’ve retained since childhood — among them, a love of mysteries and detective fiction and a fondness for medieval tales of all kinds. Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

The subject came up because Ms. Crosley, it turns out, has been leading a literary double life. Sloane Crosley Unclasps Cloak of Secrecy About Authorship 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Merging two biographies is a solid way to enliven the often-tedious genre of the literary documentary. ‘Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation’ Review: Friendship in Focus 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Allstar Just before the first world war, a penniless pencil-sharpener salesman from Chicago had one of those eureka moments that occasionally illuminate the Anglo-American literary landscape. Tarzan returns: from Edwardian swinger to hunky ecowarrior 2012-07-14T23:06:48Z

Laemmle also sought out literary Europeans like Stefan Zweig for material, and allowed an offbeat director like James Whale to flourish. ‘King of Jazz’ Is Back, Burnished for Movie Fans 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

True enough, yet the description hardly conveys the charm of these “bite-sized literary entertainments.” Michael Dirda’s ‘Browsings’ offers meditations on the life of the mind 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Juliet learns the occupation of Guernsey was not entirely sat out in the form of whimsical literary societies. War of the Past, War of the Future: Netflix Tries Both 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Two and a half years later, still down on his luck and now clinging to the outermost fringes of the literary world, Jake learns that Evan Parker overdosed before completing his masterpiece. Excuse Me While I Steal Your Book Idea and Get Famous 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

"We tried to hit all the great books so it is a good way to familiarise yourself with the literary canon." Western canon to be rewritten as three-volume graphic novel 2012-02-08T15:44:04Z

She will travel the state for two years as Louisiana’s literary ambassador. Dillard professor, folklorist next Louisiana poet laureate 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

The story is, in part, about the hierarchy of success and reputation in the literary world. This Week in Fiction: Colin Barrett on Anhedonia and Writing Poetry 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Not so many years ago, the National Book Foundation, which administers the award, tried to stir up interest by announcing its finalists at iconic literary landmarks. Should the National Book Award rethink its longlist? 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

His work, which includes an acclaimed 2016 opera based on the 18th-century Chinese literary classic “Dream of the Red Chamber,” blends elements of Eastern and Western music. A Blackface ‘Othello’ Shocks, and a Professor Steps Back From Class 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

His mother, beaming, showed it to a literary agent, and Mr. Tierney’s first collection, “Thirty From the 30’s: Costumes of the Great Stars,” was published by Prentice Hall in 1974. Tom Tierney, Who Made Paper Dolls an Art Form, Dies at 85 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The subsequent centuries were lousy with Valentine-related poetry and literary references—including the well-known "roses are red" line, which scholars trace to an epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The Victorian origins of the heart-shaped chocolate box 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

White Nights, Black Paradise, a new novel available from Infidel Books this week, shares a vision of the Jonestown massacre that is rarely emphasized in mainstream literary narratives. Jim Jones, deadly white savior: The tragic legacy of the Jonestown massacre 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

“Those Who Write for Immortality” is part of a larger genre of literary criticism. The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

The English novelist Nick Hornby’s best-selling books are rooted in an engaging and funny literary persona. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

I always just thought of it as a literary novel that happened to be set 20 years in the future. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

As a critic you had a good overview of literary styles and trends over the years. Michiko Kakutani: By the Book 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Our choice is literary, not political,” said Mr. Pivot, who was the longtime host of a popular literary television program. The French Literati and the Arab World Do a Complicated Dance 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Like every other student of high school French, I’d read “Cyrano de Bergerac,” the madcap ode to true love as literary ventriloquism. He Courted Me Through My Favorite Novel 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

Although her style is sometimes looser than theirs, the painter shares their interest in literary themes and classical techniques. A genteel brush with Victorian themes

The Target Margin version, the program says, is drawn “from myriad literary and historical sources.” Theater Review: ‘Uriel Acosta: I Want That Man!’ Recalls a Jewish Freethinker 2014-03-25T21:19:06Z

The author was inspired to write the book when he came across a statue of Red Dog in a mining town north of Perth, while at a literary event. Dog days 2011-05-19T07:25:27Z

This podcast re-airs episodes of “The Moth Radio Hour,” plus additional stories by prominent literary and culture figures from its archive of stories over the past 20 years. Why running is the perfect time for podcasts 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

The book addresses literary, military and political history. ArtsBeat: Life During Wartime: Lara Feigel Talks About ‘The Love-charm of Bombs’ 2013-07-10T17:56:38Z

Though Steinbeck’s books remain his most significant literary output, Souder also dives into Steinbeck’s life as a journalist, including overseas postings during World War II and the Vietnam War, and how they shaped his worldview. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Shaffer’s literary ambitions also ran smack into the fact that Biden’s fan appeal, such as it is, seems to be tied to his role as Obama’s sidekick. Is there such thing as a Joe Biden superfan? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

It is, to me, an almost perfect expression of literary democracy: Take a book, return a book, reading not as commodity exchange but exchange of identity, of ideas. Literary democracy in action: 'The Little Free Library Book' 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

As the pages of "A Guide to the Labyrinth" reveal, the self-styled Lizard King was on the verge of a brilliant literary career. "A Guide to the Labyrinth" is a portrait of Jim Morrison, the writer, in his own words 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Bromfield was a literary star of the Lost Generation — he won a Pulitzer in 1927 for his novel “Early Autumn” — but he gave up the writing life to become a devoted advocate of sustainable farming. New & Noteworthy, From a Korean Thriller to John Maynard Keynes 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

His major publishing achievements owed much to an uncommon mix of literary and marketing instincts. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Moreover, if there is one group that is usually apathetic towards politics, it must be the London literary scene. Margaret Thatcher's mark on books 2013-04-09T14:00:02Z

“Awful” was the word used by two different correspondents who emailed to tell me about Mr. Friedman, as if no tamer or more literary description would do. Michael Friedman, a Man of Many Voices and a Gift for Prophecy 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Music and the visual arts are central to the way he approaches his literary craft. Jeff Noon: a life in writing 2013-04-20T07:29:01Z

Hannah Smothers, 22, the relationships editor at Cosmopolitan.com, said she took down a profile picture of herself reading “Love in the Time of Cholera” on vacation because it attracted so many pretentiously literary come-ons. Beyond Swipe Right: The Pickup Line Gets a Makeover 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Considered one of the world’s foremost scholars of literature, Professor Hartman was associated with the “Yale School,” a cohort of literary theorists that included Harold Bloom, J. Hillis Miller and Paul de Man. Geoffrey H. Hartman, Scholar Who Saw Literary Criticism as Art, Dies at 86 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Being the son of a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a scion of a well-connected European family, Pryce-Jones has known everyone in the postwar literary firmament, including W.H. Review | When the world was too much with me, here’s what I read for some R&R 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

What might have been a purely intellectual debate about our collective literary taste often centered on a personal, emotional question: Did I cry? The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The first 200 pages of Jamison’s sprawling new memoir, “The Recovering,” follow the romantic formula of life as a literary alcoholic. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Connoisseurs of literary merit were cool to her accomplishments, and she was sometimes referred to as the “grande dame of trash.” Jackie Collins, chronicler of lust and power, dies at 77 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

It would be the first full-length record of a Wilson work, capturing what his widow and literary executor, costume designer Constanza Romero, now calls “one of August’s most accessible, most beloved plays.” August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

With its literary and cinematic namedropping, “The Hedgehog” unabashedly strokes the upscale, educated audience it is likely to attract. | 'The Hedgehog': Behind the Prickliness Lies a Generous Heart 2011-08-18T23:17:46Z

She established her literary reputation in 1970 with “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” a memoir detailing the racism and abuse she endured during her harrowing childhood. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

Outside of the Writers Guild finalists, there are a pile of literary films lining up as possible contenders for acting, costumes and all the other fields. Watching the literary film contenders 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

He may be the toast of the literary world, but Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz is in trouble with his native country, the Dominican Republic. Author Junot Diaz stripped of honor after speaking out against the Dominican Republic 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Tray saw a chance to ground his lofty literary knowledge in the structural problems of his own world. In this class, prisoners and Georgetown students grapple with difficult lessons 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

She then won an exhibition to read English at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she ran the literary society and met Philip Larkin. Paddy Fraser obituary 2013-05-21T15:21:27Z

A writer of little regard in the 1970s, Clifford Irving concocted a literary scheme for the ages. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

“They’ve nurtured new talent, provided a platform for local and regional artists,” he added, “and made a huge contribution to literary tourism.” Sun, Sea and Books Make This Festival an Enticing Destination 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

I pursued a Ph.D. in Renaissance history at an Ivy League school, so I expected a book written by a Bard professor to jibe with my own more literary search for peace. The language of grief: Four books that will change how you read about loss 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Over this literary chorus echoes a grisly observation quoted by Díaz Varela from the Musketeer saga: "A murder, nothing more." The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z

I doubt this year's literary prize-givers will be open to such questions. Empty Space: A Haunting by M John Harrison – review 2012-08-02T07:00:00Z

The literary world now faces the prospect of previously unpublished works emerging from boxes containing manuscripts, letters and journals written by the Czech author and his adviser and friend Max Brod. Franz Kafka papers should be made public, Israeli judge rules 2010-07-21T14:05:00Z

That is, his last literary years were worthless. Miguel Delibes, Prolific Spanish Writer, Dies at 89 2010-03-18T05:38:00Z

But even more appealing to collectors than a literary pedigree is a fishing item’s nostalgia factor. Check Your Basement for Old Fishing Gear 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

If people in the literary world bristle at Kuang’s withering depiction of the book business — or cringe in recognition — well, that’s exactly the point, she said. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Twentieth-century French literary maven François Mauriac once observed, “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” Get out the hankies for a sumptuous, touching 'King and I' at the Pantages 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

I knew I wanted to experience literary Manhattan, but the list of writers who’ve drawn inspiration from the city is dauntingly long and varied. Soaking up literary history: A book-lover’s barhopping guide 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Here’s an issue of Monks Pond, the folded-and-stapled literary magazine that he put together at the monastery in the mid-sixties. Thomas Merton and the Eternal Search 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

But throughout the years of obscurity and literary fame, East River Park was the writer’s dependable urban oasis. Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Craft, 89, was Stravinsky’s confidant and literary collaborator in his final decades and has for many years written his own accounts of the composer’s life and work. Critic’s Notebook: Doubts Greet Claims About Stravinsky’s Sexuality 2013-07-17T21:38:33Z

He amassed more than 1,000 letters about Tagore, which he bequeathed to a literary charity in Kolkata. Nimai Chatterji obituary 2011-04-03T17:18:33Z

It is less theatrical or literary than it is ritualistic and, as the title suggests, musical. A Mesmerizing ‘India Song,’ Pulpy and Austere 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

His next, “The Satanic Verses,” sealed his literary immortality. ‘Quichotte’ Is Salman Rushdie’s Latest. But the Act Is Getting Old. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Soon literary agents were asking for a memoir. ‘I Came From Nothing’: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Structurally, this makes “The Sparsholt Affair” very similar to Hollinghurst’s previous novel, “The Stranger’s Child,” which dealt with the life and literary afterlife of an English poet who died in World War I. Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

He was plugged into the New York art and literary scene and had befriended Barbara Guest, John Ashbery and other poets. Kenward Elmslie, Poet and Librettist, Dies at 93 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

And it proves Iyer’s literary talents can occasionally match his philosophical ones. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Planck taught a course called “Political Lives: Leo Tolstoy,” which exposed students to both the Russian’s literary works and his essays on nonviolent resistance. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

American literary legend has it that The New York Review of Books first appeared as a gap-closer when the Times, and its book review, went on strike starting in December, 1962. Postscript: Robert Silvers 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Much of it is the literary equivalent of meat and three veg in front of ABC 1 on a Friday night. Top 50 classic crime novels – what would make your list? 2013-07-24T05:37:28Z

“It’s grown exponentially,” said Eve Attermann, a literary agent with WME who is working on book proposals with at least five podcast clients. Podcasts Hit the Books 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

It's a gentler movie than Take Shelter, a film with obvious literary influences which looks itself like a book adaptation but was in fact written originally for the screen by Nichols. Cannes 2012: Mud – review 2012-05-26T16:58:05Z

Yes, by all means, if you want to build a literary career, you’ve got to form professional networks in your field. More work, no pay: Why I detest “Literary Citizenship” 2014-04-23T17:04:00Z

Murakami is wildly popular around the world, which makes him somewhat suspect in literary circles. Eight Ways of Looking at Haruki Murakami 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

“Station Eleven,” if we were to talk about it in our usual way, would seem like a book that combines high culture and low culture—“literary fiction” and “genre fiction.” A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The theater, the most public of literary art forms, depends on such freedom. A licensing decree prohibiting reviews of 'The Room' at REDCAT overshadows the production, which is iffy 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Moylan said he would love to recruit some distinguished literary types to join the roughly 1,200 people laid to rest at Green-Wood each year. A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead 2011-06-16T22:30:07Z

It was 2010, and in Japan at that point Murakami was a celebrity of a magnitude unrivalled in the literary world. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Hardwick argued that women lacked worldly experience, and were thus incapable of matching men’s literary accomplishments. The Cutting Mind and Romantic Heart of Elizabeth Hardwick 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

At literary festivals I've seen even quite famous authors stand up to speak to people whose faces are so blank you wonder if they wandered into the event by accident. One shade of grey: how Nicola Beauman made an unlikely success of Persephone Books 2012-11-25T00:05:20Z

By the turn of the millennium, Sebald fever was sweeping the literary world. WG Sebald's quietly potent legacy 2013-05-13T16:17:59Z

Freed from literary convention, Mr Coetzee writes not to provide answers, but to ask great questions. Life and afterlife 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

But he has been in remission for more than a decade, and is married, seemingly quite happily, to Morgan Hall, a literary editor. Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

“The literary world is portrayed as being pretty progressive, but when they’re confronted with their own biases they tend to drag their heels a little bit.” This D.C. press helps diverse young writers express themselves ‘from a place of power’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

In “A Summer Diary”—which begins with the note “All the characters are black”—Collins expands on this vision and also on its essentially literary origins. Kathleen Collins’s “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary” Contains an Extraordinary Unmade Movie 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

Yet it’s not the development of any motif that is Perry’s tribute to the literary heroes—grand, mythic, Olympian, terrifying—who loom large in his imagination. The Actor as Intellectual Artist in “Listen Up Philip” 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

David follows his literary dreams and prospers; Pip’s prosperity, which arrives so suddenly and auspiciously, comes to a sudden and irrevocable end. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 2: Great Expectations 2012-02-06T13:00:14Z

Random House fervently opposes literary censorship and supports the First Amendment rights of readers to make their own reading choices. ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ by E. L. James, in Demand at Libraries 2012-05-21T22:00:24Z

Ms. McDonald writes: Superb literary artists have managed to do their work while remaining precise about details D’Agata would dismiss as frivolous. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Fact, Fiction and In Between 2012-02-24T21:51:58Z

Having served on several cultural boards, the literary agent Morton L. Janklow found that many arts leaders lacked basic business skills necessary to manage their institutions. ArtsBeat: Literary Agent Helps Create Training Program at Syracuse for Arts Leaders 2012-01-17T14:26:13Z

The Huntington was avid for Molina’s records because its collecting interests include the social, political, cultural and literary history of California, Los Angeles and the West. Gloria Molina donates her papers to Huntington Library 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Astra Magazine, Spiegelman said, was “both unusual and exciting, a glamorous and subversive literary project, a breath of fresh air and hope.” Astra Magazine Had Creative Freedom and a Budget. It Wasn’t Enough. 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z

“Now Do You Know Where You Are” documents Levin’s various attempts to find a way out of her literary PTSD. Facing ‘the Can’t-See of the Future,’ in Verse and at the Chiropractor’s 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Is there a major novel so established in the canon and curriculum whose literary merit and moral probity remain so regularly and passionately contested? Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

The £50,000 literary award was previously restricted to works from the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe. Booker longlist set to be revealed 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

In these nearly 800 pages, the two friends — who never met in person — discuss their writing, finances, the tribulations of the literary life and, not least, their aesthetic ideals. Boo! The best ghost stories you probably haven’t heard yet. 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Within the school, the magazine had been overseen by the Black Mountain Institute, which runs a wide range of literary programs and other initiatives. Literary magazine The Believer to shut down in 2022 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Regardless of the new advantages of instant mass communication, however, BLM has also begun to reorder the slow time of the African American literary canon like the Civil Rights Movement before it. Reading James Baldwin in the Black Lives Matter era 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

His third, The City and the Pillar, published in 1948, was a coming-out story about a handsome, athletic young man, and was, he later claimed, blacklisted by the critical and literary establishment. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z

Like Frankenstein, Strange Bodies is steeped in literary history even as it plays with the cutting edge of science. Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux – review 2013-05-24T11:01:01Z

Whoever the speaker is, male or female, fishwife or schoolmaster, there is nothing literary in the voice. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z

The PEN literary award is presented to “an important writer whose work has drawn a wide audience and who helps us understand the human condition in original and powerful ways.” Zadie Smith to receive PEN America literary service award 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

He had the gift of shining the light of literary grace into even the most wretched corners of the world, where spiritual outcasts reside. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

Now she prefers to focus on her literary achievements, including her poetry; she said she received a letter from President Bill Clinton after she mailed him a poem of support during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. What Happened to Vikki Dougan? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

They were also a much-needed reset on the high season of literary escape, which had become unnecessarily uncomplicated. Did the Pandemic Change Summer Reading for Good? I Hope So. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

We learned about the country’s rich literary tradition— peering at centuries-old manuscripts detailing the “sagas” — and also about the Viking greed for timber. An airline’s brilliant marketing campaign has made Iceland a must-see stopover 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Yet its frantic interpretation of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” which opened on Tuesday night at the Public Theater, calls to mind Hamlet’s immortally jaded literary critique: “Words, words, words.” Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Age is not the only driving force in a literary character. 'Dendera': Yuya Sato on his fable about old women battling a bear 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

For the first edition, he managed a literary coup of sorts, persuading Mr. Rushdie to attend. India’s Literary Festivals Multiply Amid Anxiety Over Free Expression 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

From his neoclassical scaffolding, he looks outwards to the literary marketplace of his own age. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z

Similarly, across the Atlantic, all the top US prizes – Pulitzer, National Book awards and the National Book Critics' Circle – celebrate American literary achievement. The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle 2013-03-12T10:48:31Z

Each work has been praised for elevating the medium of television: they are all self-consciously referential of their literary potential and aspirations. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z

Next in the queue is “Dead Poets Society,” the actor's English teacher suffusing the film with a sort of literary joie de vivre. A Robin Williams retrospective for your weekend DVD consideration 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

With these and other postings, he suspended his literary career, explaining that the injustices he targeted in his novels were no longer relevant in a postcolonial Africa. Ferdinand Oyono obituary 2010-06-30T17:41:00Z

Yet “Describe the Night” is largely a literary drama, waltzing with malevolent political themes. Review | This Putin learns the power of lies in ‘Describe the Night’ 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Melissa McCarthy earned a lead actress nomination for her role as Israel, a biographer who started forging letters from literary legends to earn money after she fell on hard times. 8 books that inspired this year's Oscar-nominated films 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Since the publication of “The Land at the End of the World” Mr. Lobo Antunes, now 68, has gone on to write more than a score of other novels and win many literary prizes. Books of The Times: On a Fool?s Mission in a Dying Colonial World 2011-06-29T22:32:48Z

With a rich literary tradition and strong educational institutions, Kolkata also has a more relaxed and peaceful feel than some of India’s other modern metropolises. In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Herman Melville and Walt Whitman provide some literary ballast for this idea, but as an exploration of — and argument for — the power of human sympathy, “The Whale” is undone by simplistic psychologizing and intellectual fuzziness. ‘The Whale’ Review: Body Issues 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

I emailed and called a few literary mentors and indulged in a melodramatic moment of gratitude. If this is my final tweet 2012-06-29T23:30:00Z

He was brought in by the book’s editor, Lee Wright, to shore up the structure and bring out Traubel’s literary voice more effectively. Anne Simpson Thought She Knew Her Husband. She Didn’t. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Lorin Stein, the editor of the Paris Review, replied that the smoking ban “was the death knell for a certain kind of protracted hanging out that was once central to literary life in the city.” A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z

This topic is so fraught and multifaceted, and I appreciate that the literary community is engaged in this discussion, a microcosm for the larger social/political inequalities that Latinx and indigenous peoples face. On cultural appropriation: A Latina novelist calls herself out amid the "American Dirt" controversy 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

As spring heaves into view, the annual literary prize season opens again. The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle 2013-03-12T10:48:31Z

Naive realism is no longer the default setting for literary fiction. Is this the end of fiction's genre wars? 2013-05-17T07:00:00Z

The "dislocated" novel is one of the most difficult literary projects. Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura – review 2013-02-06T08:00:01Z

“It gave me hope,” said Fran Lebowitz, the acerbic Manhattan literary gadfly, on the terrace about three hours after that historic showbiz catastrophe, as the A-list drank away the searing awkwardness. Tell us what happened, Faye Dunaway! At the most elite Oscars party, A-listers had one question. 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

But when The Associated Press emailed his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, and asked whether Roth had given his last public talk, Wylie responded, “That’s his last.” Philip Roth may have given his last public talk 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Both explore the peculiar challenges of transforming words into images, and blend illustrations with philosophy, literary criticism and design theory. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

A novelist can avoid literary functions, but not his fellow feeling for other novelists. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z

With 30 novels to his name today, an OBE and numerous literary awards, the Rebus creator says he now takes a different approach to language. Ian Rankin embarrassed by 'purple prose' of first book 2010-08-16T10:39:00Z

The literary journal n+1, one of the first major outlets to publish So’s work, earlier this year created the Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize, a $5,000 award, in his honor. A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning. 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

The author Andrew Solomon has been elected to be president of the literary and human rights organization PEN American Center. Andrew Solomon Named President of PEN American Center 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

If God really wants to speak to us, why would he use as his medium vague and contradictory books full of cryptic literary games? The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

It’s a literary novel that ate a pulp paperback. “It’s a literary novel that ate a pulp paperback”: Novelist John Wray on “The Lost Time Accidents” as science fiction, romance and seedy Third Reich thriller 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

But his relationship to its events might best be exemplified by the literary critic Lionel Trilling. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this promising new Seattle writer’s next effort will produce something more deserving of literary immortality. Science fiction that tests the limits of life and death 2013-08-14T23:04:06Z

With permission from Wright’s literary estate, Parks’s vision diverges largely from the original plot, excising the long trial scene at the end in which Max, a white Communist lawyer unsuccessfully defends Bigger. A ‘Native Son’ Reimagined, With James Baldwin in Mind 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

It's not every day that an international dispute of Kafkaesque proportions shakes up the literary world, but one involving the author himself is doing just that. Were Lost Kafka Masterpieces Stashed Away in a Swiss Bank? 2010-07-23T06:55:00Z

It is a rare day when a novel based on a social issue exhibits the literary quality of “The Street.” Review: ‘The Street,’ by Ann Petry 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

It felt like a rite of passage, his guiding me through the cultural landscape that ultimately drew me to this literary life. Actor. Lawyer. Lover of the arts. Her uncle defied category. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Wilson, a noted literary biographer, uses Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” to structure this book, which focuses on the middle period of Lawrence’s life, from 1915 through 1925. 11 New Books Coming in August 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z

Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian cultural critic and literary theorist, popularised the notion of the carnivalesque – a concept that became well-known in his country in the 1960s and much later in the West. The N-Word: a volcano kept active by the flickering embers of racism 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

Even during Faulkner's lifetime, he was recognized as one of the most important literary figures of the 20th Century. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

The literary foundation upon which the Archive rests runs deep. For the American Prison Writing Archive, a ‘Shadow Canon’ Sheds Light 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

She became a vocal critic of Miss America, particularly its white-bread homogeneity, but her own experiences gained literary immortality: She advised Philip Roth on his portrayal of an ex-Miss New Jersey in “American Pastoral.” ‘Looking for Miss America’ Tells the History of the Legendary Pageant 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

She confessed to him that she had literary dreams. Philip Rose, ?Raisin? and ?Purlie? Producer, Dies at 89 2011-06-02T04:54:29Z

But while most fan website creators are too myopic to be skillful biographers, Slawenski's subdued storytelling and concise literary analysis make this not just a trivia-filled tome, but also a delightful read. 'J.D. Salinger: A Life': Kenneth Slawenski's biography of a reluctant genius 2011-01-22T00:07:54Z

They possess no real literary value, they hew dismayingly to certain conventions, they are repetitive — in effect, they wallow. ‘Consent,’ a Memoir That Shook France, Recalls Living a ‘Perverse Nightmare’ 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

I’m happy to act as your literary big sister, showing you how to cuff your jeans and teach you your locker combo. “I doubt Donald Antrim feels that way”: Diane Cook and Marie-Helene Bertino talk revision, realism, reviews — and secret celebrity audiences 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Because I’m a literary critic, I tend to gravitate toward pieces about books, writers and culture, which of course leaves vast expanses of territory uncovered. 2014′s best of the literary Web: From “Mansplanation Nation” to “The Original ‘Gone Girl’” 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Though my father was working at a shipping company then, his literary ambitions were paramount, and he went on to become a professional writer. Refreshing a Mother’s Memory With Love and Stories 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Earlier this month, a brief panic swept through the literary world when the website Bowery Boogie reported that McNally Jackson would be closing its Prince Street store, a space it occupied for 14 years. Rent Hike Hits Beloved Drama Book Shop 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Maybe in the world of literary criticism, the author’s intentions are often seen as irrelevant. Forking hell! Is The Good Place the ultimate TV show for our times? 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

The National Book Awards are among the most prominent literary prizes in the U.S. Dave Eggers, Valeria Luiselli and more will judge the 2018 National Book Awards 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

But it was Mr. Handke’s prize that sparked a backlash, including a rare rebuke from another literary organization, PEN America. Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

This, in turn, suggests a bigger problem — that, as the literary critic Harold Bloom once insisted, "In the United States, satire is no longer possible. America has turned into a satire of itself." Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The drawback to literary laurels, like the National Book Award that this stunner rightly won last fall, is that they can make honorees seem less like must-reads than should-reads. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

“It nails the literary scene in every city, in every time,” she said. Encounters : From the Borough of Writerly Types, a Look Inward 2013-08-07T23:30:24Z

Drout, is wary of the trend to create franchises out of literary works, particularly, in this case, without the deceased author’s knowledge or permission. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’: The Reviews Are in 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Confident in his own erudition and powers of judgment, Kermode was always open to, and excited by, new ideas in a manner unusual among literary academics. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z

That literary artifact belongs to a bygone genre that has long seemed the province of the classroom. Review: Salieri’s Anguish Continues in a New ‘Amadeus’ in London 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

I was about as hip and literary as a middle-income tax bill, but I was smart. 'Her needs had to come first': becoming a father and a widower in a week 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Visitors are encouraged to join in digital literary games and communal writing projects. Word up: new Chicago museum celebrates American authors 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Cervantes is one of the most renowned literary figures in world history. Is the quixotic quest for Miguel de Cervantes' bones almost over? 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Monday's announcement came almost exactly a year after Lee sued her former literary agent, Samuel Pinkus, in order to regain rights to her novel. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' finally going digital 2014-04-28T12:40:41Z

One, Dominique Taylor, said that her aspiration for her channel, The Storyscape, is for it to become “a literary teaching hub.” Meet the YouTube Stars Turning Viewers Into Readers 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Daniel Kehlmann, born in Munich, is a literary superstar in Germany. Fame by Daniel Kehlmann 2010-09-19T11:57:00Z

“Raising Raffi” offers glimpses of what it’s like to eke out literary lives at the intersection of the Trump and Biden administrations. ‘Raising Raffi,’ a Father’s Lucid Book About a Chaotic Scene 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

But that’s less a description of character than window dressing for a familiar criminal type, and no amount of leering interrogation sequences or pseudo-academic literary analysis flesh him out any more deeply. The Following: Bloody Awful 2013-01-22T14:05:43Z

I grew up reading Agatha Christie, of course; she and Stephen King remain the strongest literary influences on my own work. Lisa Gardner, the Thriller Writer Who Loves Historical Romance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

But he is so important as a literary figure and in terms of his influence that to ignore him seems to just avoid the problem. They Are Giving Hemingway Another Look, So You Can, Too 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

She has rejected almost all interview requests for the past half-century and, despite keeping an apartment in New York City, has not been a presence on America's literary circuit. Harper Lee sues agent over copyright to To Kill A Mockingbird 2013-05-04T22:35:05Z

The battle for Britain's most prestigious literary award is proving to be a page-turner. Julian Barnes leads Booker Prize finalists 2011-10-18T11:01:07Z

In 1963 they were collected in Towards a New Novel – for my money, one of the most important works of postwar literary criticism. In theory: Towards a New Novel 2010-05-13T15:17:00Z

I can write a Western, I can write an erotic novel, I could read all the science fiction, short stories, literary stories, and they're all new because nobody put black people in those stories. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

In the bleak world that this story presents, wit and irony, along with jazz and literary fiction, have evaporated in the heat of a second Holocaust sometime in the 21st century. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future

The cognitive load of living through the coronavirus has gone straight for my literary jugular. ‘Killing People in Fiction Was Fun’: Mysteries That Have Stood the Test of Time 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

When she graduated from high school, she realized that the literary life might not be that lucrative. Ilaria Urbinati: The Stylist for the Quieter Half of the Red Carpet 2014-04-23T19:46:57Z

Often borrowing from his literary hero’s dictum, Muir harnessed Thoreau’s statement to promote his drive to save California wilderness from ruin. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed to promise future biographers and literary scholars a digital wonderland: comprehensive, organized and searchable files, quickly accessible with a few clicks. Emory University Saves Rushdie?s Digital Data 2010-03-15T22:06:00Z

Thanks to literary executors and eager publishers, the titles in this fall’s Dead Authors Returned Society include: New books by dead authors 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

In treating a real-life situation as a novelist might, Capote aimed to combine the best of both literary worlds to devastating effect. Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - rereading 2011-08-05T09:00:06Z

The literary executors of TS Eliot, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell have also held back letters and diaries from would-be biographers. The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Pulsifer said Arcadia would be cutting back on the number of translations it publishes – having already seen cutbacks because overseas national literary organisations have reduced their support for English language translations of their books. Arts Council cuts threaten independent publishers 2010-10-21T13:50:00Z

Essentially, the book is a literary companion to Reese’s clothing and decor brand, Draper James. Perspective | Reese Witherspoon is selling frilly Southern womanhood, and I’ve been sucked in, y’all 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Owen is deft at shifting Marcus through various highs and lows, moving easily through dialogue laced with literary allusions, self-deprecating romantic gestures and destructive alcoholic rages. A battle of 'Words and Pictures' at Maine prep school 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The prose is clean, but flat, with little sparkle or literary grace. Franklin Roosevelt’s Story Is Worth Telling Again and Again 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

And, anyhow, is the public a reliable judge of literary quality? Perspective | The Golden Man Booker is the worst way to pick the best novel — except for all the other ways 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Eve Babitz, a writer of the 1970s and 1980s who has been recently rediscovered and reprinted by prestigious literary presses, was very much an It Girl. 'Sex and Rage' have always been the territory of the It Girl 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

I was one of a group of writers invited by the Franschhoek literary festival to attend a prize-giving ceremony for poetry written by inmates and to spend an hour with them. Margie Orford: 'Working with these men helped me understand why South Africa is so violent' 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

I didn't judge it as straight autobiography, I judged it as a piece of literary writing. Q&A with Ann Powers on 'Best Music Writing 2010' 2010-12-23T20:15:10Z

The Great War is simply just richer, from a literary point of view. The best boring books 2011-01-04T13:05:36Z

Renowned director Chen Kaige saw his literary adaptation “Monk Comes Down the Mountain” slip to third place last week, with $23 million in the seven days ending Sunday. Youth films, chick flicks dominate Chinese box office 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fisher’s legacy may rest at least as much on her literary voice, on the alter egos she created on the page, as on any character she played onscreen. Carrie Fisher, a Princess, a Rebel and a Brave Comic Voice 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Just because King wrote genre fiction, the argument went, didn’t mean that his novels and stories didn’t have literary merit. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z

The novel won the Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, in 2015. New in Paperback: ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ ‘Compass’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Yale University is announcing the establishment of some of the most lucrative literary prizes in America. A Writer?s Estate to Yield $150,000 Literary Prizes 2011-06-17T22:55:21Z

That adventure, in which, by obliterating the distinction between reporting and literary craft, the far more forbidding border between life and art is also assaulted, is, to use a Maileresque phrase, an American dream. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Before the Hamptons became synonymous with Wall Street, it was known as a place for the artistic and literary. As the Hamptons Booms, a New World of Luxury Problems 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

The entrance of McSweeney’s into children’s literature is in keeping with another one of Mr. Eggers’s literary endeavors, 826 Writing and Tutoring Centers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching creative writing to young people. ArtsBeat: What the Hippest Preschooler on the Block Will Be Reading 2011-06-09T18:15:45Z

In the article she declared it “the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age.” A Web Site for Literary Teenagers 2010-12-05T22:30:00Z

But I notice that they are distinctly different from my wife’s, though with a large literary overlap. How Ursula K. Le Guin Fooled the Poet Robert Hass 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

He submitted the chapter to "New World Writing" magazine by way of a literary agent, and a full year passed before he completed a second chapter. 15 things you might not know about "Catch-22" 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

What's more, out of that dissent, passion and joke-cracking, there emerged a genuinely worthwhile debate about the nature of democracy and the best way of judging literary achievement. Not the Booker prize: and the winners are ... 2010-10-12T11:31:00Z

Quaytman; her paintings blend elements of geometric abstraction, photography and literary history. Helen Molesworth, MOCA's new chief curator, relishes the possibilities 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The problem, so to speak, is that he then lived long enough to see the world — and literary taste — change drastically. The One-Hit Author Whose One Hit Had 12 Volumes 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The band’s literary leanings and dark undercurrents made the group one of the most compelling acts of the era. Preview: Doors’ Robby Krieger celebrates 50th anniversary of band’s debut album in Seattle 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

It tends to launch literary careers, while the Booker tends to expand them. Nigerian wins Caine Prize 2012-07-05T13:56:00Z

As a long game of literary Mad Libs, “Eligible” is undeniably delightful. ‘Eligible’: A modern retelling of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

As its title indicates, “Fiction Ruined My Family” adds a literary aspect to these standard-issue ingredients. Books of The Times: ?Fiction Ruined My Family,? by Jeanne Darst - Review 2011-09-28T21:54:46Z

Bolton was represented by the Javelin literary agency, whose clients include former FBI Director James Comey and the anonymous Trump administration official whose book, “A Warning,” comes out Nov. 19. John Bolton has a book deal, publishing officials tell AP 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z