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Nature is a smaller thing in England than we’re used to in the US. There are no great, soul-shattering vistas, no real mountains, no mesas or canyonlands, no skies so vast they pour in through your eyes and spill out the back of your skull. Here they love a muddy path through ferny woods, a

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Sunday’s are for passing along the links from the week that I didn’t quite get to for one reason or another. These made my bookmarks, and now maybe they will make yours. View original source

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When I was in university, there was a class on the course list that I couldn’t wait to take: an introduction to lesbian literature. Unfortunately, that class was never offered in the years I was there. I did

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Here are the stories that made news in the world of books and reading this week. The Fiction Longlist for the 2024 National Book Awards The final and most closely-watched longlist for The National Book Awards was announced this morning: the ten nominees in fiction. James is the headliner, though Martyr!, All Fours, and the newly-released Creation Lake have all been getting

September 13, 2024, 10:00am Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 473 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Fiction are Jamie Ford, Lauren Groff (Chair), Zeyn Joukhadar, Chawa Magaña, and Reginald McKnight. The

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Earlier this week we covered the 2024 National Book Awards Longlists for Young People’s Literature and Translated Literature. Now the longlists for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Fiction have also been released, rounding out all the contenders for this year’s

September 13, 2024, 12:16pm The OUP USA Guild, part of the News Media Guild and representing around 150 workers, is demanding that Oxford University Press reverse the recent firing of US-based workers, claiming the layoffs are in violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that management and the union signed just three weeks ago. 13 members

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September 12, 2024, 3:00pm Today, the shortlist for the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was announced on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The BBC National Short Story Award, now in its nineteenth year, grants £15,000 to the winning author; each other shortlisted author will receive £600. “From a roster of serious

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. How Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon The central data point in this piece on the rise of

September 12, 2024, 2:05pm A meme’s going around. I saw it first on FKA Twitter: 💀 pic.twitter.com/B5PrCZMml9 — THE lusty argonian maid (@lindawg) September 1, 2024 Though there’s no data to support this “discovery,” the internet was quick to take it on its face. I think because we hear the ring of truth. I know

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September 11, 2024, 12:26pm Photo by Howard Smith-Imagn Images, from SI.com James Earl Jones died on Monday at the age of 93, after a career filled with iconic performances, including in Star Wars, The Lion King, Roots, The Great White Hope, and a movie I’m always recommending, Matewan, about the famous 1920 coal miners strike.