For readers who like mysteries that are suspenseful but not frightening, here are five new and recent books that may keep you up late finding out whodunnit — but won’t scare you out of sleeping altogether. (Berkley) Sixty-year-old widow Vera Wong’s rigidly structured schedule — up at 4:30 a.m. … [Read more...]
International Women’s Day: ‘Color Purple’ and other books to read about women by women
March 12, 2023 by
English novelist Mary Shelley once said, “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” And books written by women writers have always been such — with fearless and candid expressions of desire, they display a powerful intent and refusal to flinch under the male gaze. And with International … [Read more...]
2023 PEN American Literary Award Winners
March 12, 2023 by
The 2023 PEN American Literary Award Winners have been announced! This year’s awards conferred $350,000 to writers and translators in eleven different categories that include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, literature in translation, and more. The winners were … [Read more...]
Announcing the 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Winners
March 4, 2023 by
PEN America is thrilled to announce the 2023 Literary Awards winners. The following book award winners were announced live at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2023, at The Town Hall in New York City and hosted by Kal Penn. Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards Program … [Read more...]
How a political prisoner’s novels gave Indonesia a sense of history
February 25, 2023 by
HISTORY Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship Max Lane Penguin, $34.99 In the second week of January, Indonesian President Joko Widodo expressed deep regret for the country’s dark history of human rights violations, chief among them one of the worst … [Read more...]
