Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber —issues like racism, sexism, greed, and anti-Semitism that continue to resonate in America more than 70 years later. Ferber’s remarkable body of work includes twelve novels, notably one that earned her a Pulitzer Prize for […]
The Mallorcan Joana Marcús is a young bestseller in Spain and America, writer of young adult novels with a romantic touch As Victoria, the protagonist of Etéreo (Montena), Joana Marcús (Palma, 2000) has a subtle irony in her speech that blends well with the simplicity of being the best-selling Spanish language author in America. It’s […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) One thing which many readers of Robert Frost’s poetry may have wondered while reading his poems is: why does he repeat the same line at the end of his 1923 poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’? The repeated line ‘And miles to go before I sleep’ concludes […]
The image portrays a figure staring around a large question mark. The colors are gray, black and white. historical fiction 6 Engrossing Historical Novels to Keep the Chill Away Curl up with these transporting reads. Credit…Caroline Gamon Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of […]
It’s abacus and laurels time here at Book Marks HQ. We, the industrious and sun-starved Book Marks miners, have spent 12 months chiseling reviews from more than 150 publications—from the Washington Post to the Irish Times , the San Francisco Chronicle to the London Review of Books —all so that we can now tell you, […]
Book Marks logo It’s abacus and laurels time here at Book Marks HQ. We, the industrious and sun-starved Book Marks miners, have spent 12 months chiseling reviews from more than 150 publications—from the Washington Post to the Irish Times , the San Francisco Chronicle to the London Review of Books —all so that we can […]
Image courtesy of UCLA’s website , but since AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted, maybe this acknowledgment doesn’t matter. UCLA announced the other day that “Comp Lit 2BW will be the first course in the UCLA College Division of Humanities to be built around the Kudu artificial intelligence platform. The textbook: AI-generated. Class assignments: AI-generated. Teaching […]
“I wanted to write something which takes a stammer seriously,” the author says of ‘When the Stammer Came to Stay,’ out Dec. 10 from Walker Books US Comments Maggie O’ Farrell and the cover of ‘When the Stammer Came to Stay’. Photo: Murdo Macleod 2017; Walker Books US Author Maggie O’Farrell is fascinated by the […]
Tim Tomlinson is a Professor of Writing at New York University’s Global Liberal Studies Program. He is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He is the author of the chapbook, Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse; the poetry collection, Requiem for the […]
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org : “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Samantha Rose Hill and Genese Grill. Samantha Rose Hill is the editor and translator of What Remains : The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt (Liveright […]
