🏆 Winner of the 2016 International Booker Prize Read expert recommendations “A common thread in much of the South Korean literature I’ve read in translation, and something I love, is the focus on the average person…The Vegetarian is a novel about a woman called Yeong-hye. The first pa...
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For instance, you may have grumbled about cracking open your copy of The Great Gatsby, but after those first few chapters, you found yourself captivated by the destructive decadence of the era and the mystery surrounding Jay Gatsby and his past. You knew To Kill a Mockingbird was ...
Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian (the strangely named duo behind Avant Kinema) were responding to an invitation from the AHRC-funded projectImprints of the New Modernist Editingin 2019, which would have resulted in an exhibition at Shandy Hall, home of the Laurence Sterne Trust, but the Covid-1...
“The Nature of Language” in which Heidegger uses two poems, one by Stefan George and one by Gottfried Benn, to question language about its nature. Although George’s poem is the one that Heidegger deeply explicates, Benn’s is the one that, echoing Valèry, sheds the most light on ...
Everything about her is intriguing. Her springtime-fresh innocence that seems at odds with her sultry allure. Her quiet drive and strong work ethic that contrast with a free-spirited enthusiasm for life. But Cat has secrets, too, and that's driving Mason crazy. Who’s the man from SoCal ...
One of my favorite John Grisham book isThe Guardians, a standalone legal thriller novel. It features the Guardians, a group similar to Project Innocence, which takes on the case of Quincy Miller, a young black man who was framed for killing Keith Russo, his lawyer. Cullen Post, who founde...
The woman’s face flushed dark with anger. “You people have no sense of truth!” she said. “Don’t come here talking about an eminent man like that! You ought to be ashamed of yourself, making such an excuse!” This sketch, from the the story-a-day anthology 365 Days that Kay ...
Latinx 15-year-old living in Harlem with her very Catholic parents. Feeling unheard, X begins to express herself through poetry—but keeps it a secret from her family. Acevedo penned the book after her former eighth-grade students complained about the lack of relatable characters in YA literatur...
And so on for all the letters of the alphabet. Certainly Kuipers knew that there were books and exhibitions for educating the general populace about the origins of the alphabet. He had been there and done that. But it is a wonderful proposition that art and design should confront the ...