Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist and translator, wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. What the Swedish Academy said, and what the work is.
Leodora Darlington’s debut, The Exes, is a thriller about a young woman with a history of blackouts who begins to wonder whether she is responsible…
By Tessa Nolan Vladimir Nabokov arrived in England in the spring of 1919 with a butterfly net, a schoolboy’s English, and no country to go…
A lost annotated novel, a bench at Leicester Square and Anthony Hopkins: George Feifer's own account of the coincidence Hopkins still tells.
Marlon James, Douglas Stuart, Elizabeth Strout, M. John Harrison, Luke Kennard and Rebecca Perry make the Booker 2026 shortlist. The winner is named on 9…
By Sara Bright Charles Dickens didn’t just write novels; he pioneered a dynamic, serialized form of storytelling with The Pickwick Papers that fundamentally reshaped literary…
By Sara Bright The Bloomsbury Group, a collective of early 20th-century English writers, intellectuals, philosophers, and artists, challenged Victorian rigidity through radical honesty. Beyond their…
In the annals of historical writing, few events have invited as many retellings as the fall of Maximilien Robespierre on 9 Thermidor Year II –…
The Internet Archive lent scanned books like a library and lost. What the Hachette ruling settled, what it left open, and why the fight moved…
A New York court ordered Anna's Archive to pay $19.5m and told registries worldwide to disable its domains. The site kept indexing. Why book piracy…