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They Came to See Us Suffer | Charlie Tyson
49+ min ago (292+ words) Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Knopf, 400 pages. 2026. Made You Look by Tanya Grant. Berkley, 368 pages. 2025. I Could Be Famous: Stories by Sydney Rende. Bloomsbury, 272 pages. 2026. Just Watch Me by Lior Torenberg. Avid Reader Press, 288 pages. 2026. Actresses play characters; influencers play…...
The Book Nook: Coovadia novel a story of faith and identity
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (399+ words) First up is Imraan Coovadia's An Enemy of the People'published by Penguin Random House South Africa. It's available in softcover and as an ebook and can be found at all major outlets. There is a sombre kind of realism to…...
Leamington romance author up for prestigious award
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (191+ words) A ROMANCE author from Leamington is "thrilled" her debut novel is up for a prestigious award. Karen Storey's The Approval of Sheep has been listed as a contender for the Romantic Novelists Association's prestigious Joan Hessayon Award. The award is…...
Column: Book club skeptic? So was Roxane Gay. Here's what converted her
2+ hour, 48+ min ago (238+ words) Book clubs are often treated as something of a cultural punch line, because they are largely the domain of women and we have a penchant for dismissing or diminishing anything women do. When I approached the Garden Gate Cafe, where…...
Four Songs That Were Adapted From Poetry
22+ hour, 17+ min ago (274+ words) Originally a poem of the same title by Langston Hughes, Nina Simone and Hughes were good friends who both made monumental contributions to art and literature. Hughes would often send Simone books he thought she would enjoy, and when he…...
Singapore Literature Prize: Changes and prize money increase
5+ hour, 3+ min ago (617+ words) Prasanthi Ram receiving her Singapore Literature Prize award from Meira Chand at the ceremony in 2024. Published'Apr 09, 2026, 03: 45 PM Updated'Apr 09, 2026, 04: 06 PM SINGAPORE " Just two years after introducing new award categories for translations and comic books, the biennial Singapore Literature Prize has suspended…...
Singing of arms and the man: Son of Nobody, by Yann Martel, reviewed
18+ hour, 48+ min ago (247+ words) Yann Martel, the author of Beatrice and Virgil and Life of Pi, typically explores competing storylines, narrative reliability and the nature of truth. His new novel, Son of Nobody, pursues these themes in a first-person account written by a scholar…...
Tade Thompson and Eugen Bacon Win at 2026 BSFA Awards
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (253+ words) By Abioye Damilare Samson British-Nigerian writer Tade Thompson and African-Australian author Eugen Bacon are among the winners of the 2026 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards, announced on April 5 at Eastercon in Birmingham, England. Thompson won the award for Best Shorter…...
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (661+ words) Our favorite criticism of the week includes Sadie Stein on Agnieszka Szpila's Hexes of the Deadwood Forest, Erin Somers on Jay Mc Inerney's See You on the Other Side, Kristen Roupenian on Marie NDiaye's The Witch, Ginny Hogan on Caro…...
Five books to try in April
5+ hour, 40+ min ago (55+ words) There's good news and bad news on the Anthony Horowitz book that's hitting store and library shelves this spring. "A Deadly Episode' by Anthony Horowitz "The Ending Writes Itself' by Evelyn Clarke "Famesick' by Lena Dunham "Lidie' by Jane Smiley…...