Apr 16 2019: Gene Wolfe, a towering figure in science fiction whose magnum opus The Book of the New Sun was hailed as a masterpiece by Ursula K Le Guin, has died at the age of 87.
Apr 15 2019: Netflix has been on a book acquisition spree over the past year, developing screen adaptations of dozens of novels, series, short story collections, and graphic novels. About 50 of these literary properties are being turned into series projects, while the screening ...
Apr 15 2019: The 2019 Pulitzers have been announced. The winners in the "Letters" category are:
Fiction: The Overstory by Richard Powers
Nonfiction: Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold
History: Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Biography: The New Negro by Jeffrey ...
Apr 02 2019: The Library of Congress rejected pressure from student activists to change its subject heading "illegal aliens" to "undocumented immigrants," arguing that many do have documentation of some type and that the term is not widely used in law, but has decided to replace the...
Apr 02 2019: Mental Floss has a fun article on words that started as spelling mistakes. For example, nicknames were originally called eke names, with the verb eke used here in the sense of “to make longer” or “to provide an addition.” Sometime in the 13th century, however, “an eke-...
Mar 31 2019: According to a Pew Research public opinion poll 3 in 4 Americans believe that local news outlets are in good financial shape and fewer than 1 in 6 pays for local news.
“I found the survey results to be really sad and disturbing,” said David Chavern, president of the ...
Mar 27 2019: After fiercely challenging Ted Hughes’s description of deaf children as “alert and simple” in a poem in his first collection, the deaf spoken-word poet Raymond Antrobus has won the Ted Hughes award for poetry.
The 33-year-old British Jamaican, who has performed at ...
Mar 26 2019: More than 1,300 writers including Kerry Hudson, David Nicholls, Sally Rooney, Michael Rosen and Val McDermid have backed a campaign for Waterstones booksellers to be paid the living wage.
The support follows a petition from staff at Waterstones, signed by more than 6...
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