43+ min ago  (136+ words) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace was published 30 years ago. To commemorate, Christian Swinehart made Infinite Digest, an illustrated companion to the book: Now, 30 years after its initial publication, I'm revisiting Infinite Jest and exploring those old intuitions about its…...

2+ hour, 36+ min ago  (822+ words) I learned about metamorphosis in school last year, and it makes my stomach and fingers and feet and head fill with happiness to think about it. The magic of it. Right there in this pond. Like some witch is waving…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago  (220+ words) Above: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (He That Is Without Sin?) by Vasily Polenov(18441927). If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly. (V. iii. 315316) That is a terrible rhyme, and the…...

1+ hour, 47+ 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…...

2+ hour, 9+ 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…...

2+ hour, 46+ 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…...

3+ hour, 46+ 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…...

23+ hour, 15+ 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…...

6+ hour, 1+ 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…...

19+ hour, 46+ 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…...