No matter what publishers and writers do in terms of publicity, readers are still the final judges of what constitutes good literature. In a UK Guardian…
Why this refusal to use the “E-word”? America is not a republic. It is an empire. To be sure, an empire in a relatively…
More than 30 countries, mostly in Europe and East Asia, face rapidly ageing populations. Chris Arsenault The world’s richest nations are approaching a baby…
Authors who have published five books or invested 20 years in ’literary creation’ would get £565 a month under the plan Argentina is to consider…
Please find attached new titles from the Jan/Feb 2011 period. We are running behind schedule currently due to some important changes we have been making…
Naked Light and the Blind Eye (2010, Future Fiction London) by Sanya Osha avoids all the usual clichés one comes to expect from a typical postcolonial…
By CHOE SANG-HUN SEOUL, South Korea — Even with the explosive growth of suicides in South Korea, the case of the 78-year-old widow was…
This is a book, written in 1957 by Leopold Kohr, which discusses the probable breakdown of nations. The subject specifically relates to large, overdeveloped…
Ben Kwakye’s latest novel, The Other Crucifix, is a captivating tale of double estrangement. Born and raised in Ghana by an indigent but affectionate family, Jojo…
Arundhati Roy took the literary world by storm 14 years ago with The God of Small Things. Since then she’s become her country’s harshest…