Books & Literature

The one disease I fear most is Alzheimer’s, and I am sure that I am not the only one. Our fear of Alzheimer’s, which recent research suggests may have been the third leading cause of death in the pre-pandemic United States, far outranks our fear of heart disease and cancer, the first and second leading […]

Writer Ruben Reyes Jr. joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation. Reyes explains how deportation could affect families or households with different immigration statuses, including those here through Deferred Action Childhood Arrival (commonly known as DACA) and with Temporary Protected Status. The three discuss Trump’s plans

November 20, 2024, 9:57pm After a long ceremony and lots of wonderful speeches about books, presenting the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards: YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE: Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem BetweenG.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House * TRANSLATED LITERATURE: Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, Taiwan TravelogueTranslated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin KingGraywolf Press You

November 20, 2024, 2:29pm Yesterday in Toronto, the Writers’ Trust of Canada recognized the country’s best books and authors with the distribution of seven annually-given prizes. For his second novel, Batshit Seven, the novelist Sheung-King received the highly coveted Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction prize. The $60,000 award recognizes the year’s best novel or story

November 20, 2024, 1:24pm In bummer news for all fans of the separation of church and state, this Tuesday Texas lawmakers “signaled their support” for a new public school curriculum that will include lessons from—wait for it—the actual bible.  The state-commissioned syllabi, dubbed “Bluebonnet Learning,” is aimed at K-5 elementary school students. Lesson plans are

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day More Story Brightly Shining “Standing out here, are we?” the caretaker said. He took up position at his pillar, taking a packet of cigarettes… Source link

The following is from Ingvild Rishøi’s Brightly Shining. Rishøi was born and raised in Oslo. She has published several collections of stories in Norway, and her debut novel, originally titled Stargate, was published in Norway in 2021. It is published or forthcoming in twenty territories and is being adapted for film. Waight is a literary

It is the end of October when I arrive in Helsinki with my nine-year-old son, with whom I first read the Moomin stories when he was three years old, and we were living in Scotland together during a harsh winter. We read The Invisible Child and various other exploits and adventures of this family of strange

Baldwin describes how his father’s illness led to him “hating and fearing every living soul including his children who had betrayed him, too, by reaching towards the world which had despised him.” As my father’s illness took over his brain, he would tell my mother that he was going to kill himself. Slamming the door

The Moon’s influence on our planet is undeniable. Its gravity pulls the waters of our oceans, creating the tides. Its light cues the migration of birds, the foraging of wildebeests, and the synchronized mating of corals. It is not surprising, then, that since ancient times, humans have wondered if the cycle of the Moon might