In just seven days, 8000 people have signed up for the Toledo Lucas County Public Library's Winter Read Challenge, according to Nancy Eames, the youth services coordinator with the library. The ...
Literature is at times powerless in the face of reality's obscenity, says Ramy Al-Asheq, Palestinian-Syrian-German poet, journalist and cultural figure based in Berlin, Germany ...
As the largest exam board in the UK, there is a good chance that others may soon follow suit - with both AQA and OCR both ...
When Edwin Frank, who founded New York Review Books in 1999 and has run it ever since, read Alex Ross’s 2008 book, “ The Rest ...
The Wonders of Doctor Bent, reflects the ying and yang of my life in Birmingham. First, the horror of sexual abuse. Second, ...
Satyendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore's elder brother, became India’s first IAS officer in 1863. He broke barriers under ...
"Gobsmacked!" relies heavily on the Google Books Ngram Viewer, a tool for measuring the "frequency of words across millions ...
The filmmaker reflects on her journey from a finance career in London to international acclaim as a storyteller ...
Without literature we cannot understand the past, do not understand the present and will fail to navigate the future. Yet it is treated like ...