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Alistair Moffat to step down as a Director of the Borders Book Festival
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Ana Paula Maia: A Brazilian Voice Makes to the Booker Prize 2026 Final
10+ hour, 37+ min ago (1327+ words) Debunking the Myths About Sex Trafficking Why Women's Casual Sex Is Seen So Negatively by Male and Female? Internet Expanded Sex Work from Finding Sugar Daddy to Selling Used Panties Earth Had 2. 5 Billion Tyrannosaurus Rex and Other Revelations With a…...
What should win this year's International Booker?
16+ hour, 5+ min ago (1042+ words) The Guardian What should win this year's International Booker? Political oppression in Tehran, a witch's tale from France, a film-maker in Nazi Germany " we weigh up the contenders for the International Booker prize 2026 This year's International Booker prize shortlisted titles…...
Douglas Stuart's unashamedly emotional new novel has real heart
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Interview | Translator Ross Benjamin on the International Booker-shortlisted novel, The Director
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (223+ words) Under the Third Reich, Pabst compromised his art in order to survive and make films for the Nazi establishment. While Kehlmann's German prose captures Pabst's life frame by frame on the page, Benjamin renders it in English with equal cinematic…...
Science fiction looks better in paperback | Brief letters
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (282+ words) Reading a subversive genre | Stalking horses | Putin's Victory Day parade | Standing room only | Middle-aged at 60 My science fiction paperbacks were treasured as much for their imaginative cover art as for the words inside (The hill I will die on: Heavy,…...
Lin King "16"s Translation of a Taiwanese Novel Is Up For the Booker Prize
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (499+ words) Princeton Alumni Weekly The Attentionauts; Philip Stoltzfus "79 and Lebanese American University in wartime. Lin King "16"s Translation of a Taiwanese Novel Is Up For the Booker Prize Taiwan Travelogue by Y'ng Shuang-Zi explores the island"s colonial era and food…...
Bind and Release
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (224+ words) This is the last of the short columns, about nothing in particular, that I shall write for The Lamp. I felt I had gone as far as I could with a series of articles which were extremely personal. But these…...
International Booker Prize 2026 Odds: Taiwan Travelogue Favourite for Historic First Win
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (610+ words) I break betting odds news as it happens, so you're never left behind when the market moves or a top offer lands. The International Booker Prize 2026 reaches its conclusion on Tuesday evening at Tate Modern in London, and for the…...
International Booker Prize 2026: heartbreak, brutality, shapeshifting " six experts review the nominees
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (1118+ words) Vinicius de Carvalho, King's College London; Boriana Alexandrova, University of York; Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, King's College London; Karolina Watroba, University of Edinburgh; Marion Gibson, University of Exeter, and Narguess Farzad, SOAS, University of London This year's International Booker Prize shortlist…...