Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban State has ordered 13 books by seven authors, six of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and library The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2024
19 brilliant examples of negative space in design Designs that make a positive impact with negative space. Creative Bloq · Aug 7, 2024
Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland review – a toothless abortion tale If novels like this one are feminist – and that’s a slippery question – then it feels like a masochistic kind of empowerment The Guardian - AU · Jun 13, 2024
‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2024
Five of the best Alice Munro short stories The greatest examples of the late writer’s uncanny ability to capture the many complexities of life range from stories of sex to loneliness The Guardian - US · May 14, 2024
Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92 Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2024
Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death Leading cultural figures including Margaret Atwood sign statement in support of rapper who criticised Iranian regime The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2024
‘I can say things other people are afraid to’: Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump At 84, The Handmaid’s Tale author is as outspoken as ever. She talks about aging, culture wars - and why “the orange guy” can’t be allowed back into the White House The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2024
Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change 2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2024
‘No one comes back’: Margaret Atwood’s anti-war poem debuts at Venice Biennale Canadian author’s work, shared exclusively with the Observer, is to be shown alongside art by Goya The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2024
Read all about it! The 27 best new books to get lost in From Salman Rushdie’s terrifying story of surviving a stabbing to David Nicholls’ latest must-read romantic novel, Saskia Kemsley shares her pick of the best new fiction and non-fiction releases for the summer Evening Standard · Apr 8, 2024
A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch audiobook review – from hatpins to glass dildos Miriam Margolyes, Margaret Atwood and others narrate stories of female progress via a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2024
Ralph Heimans on painting the Queen, Kevin Rudd, Judi Dench and more See the exhibition at Canberra's National Portrait Gallery. The Canberra Times · Mar 8, 2024
Why you need to stop being a book cover design snob Not everything needs to be minimalist. Creative Bloq · Mar 5, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2024 Fourteen Days co-edited by Margaret Atwood review – a pandemic tale Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Atwood and others come together for a collaborative novel set during the New York lockdown that explores our need for connection
The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024 The Handmaid’s Tale review – Poul Ruders’s opera shows Atwood’s novel has lost none of its relevance While it shies away from some of the brutality of the book, the ENO’s uncluttered staging gives space to the sharply drawn characters and revels in sumptuous atonality
The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024 Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel review – a starry patchwork inspired by the dark days of Covid Editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston round up 36 big literary names for a spirited Decameron-style collection of shaggy dog stories and tales of lost love
The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2024 ‘There is joy, and there is rage’: the new generation of novelists writing about motherhood From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a mother
The Conversation · Jan 3, 2024 15 literary podcasts to make you laugh, learn and join conversations about books In his “memoir of the craft”, On Writing, Stephen King lauds books as “a uniquely portable magic”. Among the world’s estimated 5 million podcasts, those devoted to books and reading are so plentiful that I’m tempted to call them the next best thing.
Al Jazeera · Dec 31, 2023 A library of the ‘future’: Can it make the world a better place? Each year, a new manuscript will be sealed in the Silent Room in the Future Library in Norway. The goal? Inspire hope.
The Conversation · Dec 17, 2023 Conversing with the 'restless dead' – a posthumous collection of Hilary Mantel's writing illuminates her singular literary achievement Hilary Mantel’s writing career falls neatly into two periods: before and after Wolf Hall.
WEKU · Nov 27, 2023 Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize for dystopian novel 'Prophet Song' Lynch, 46, had been the bookies' favorite to win the prestigious prize, which usually brings a big boost in sales.
The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2023 Zaghari-Ratcliffe left The Handmaid’s Tale in her prison’s ‘secret library’ There have been protests in Iran over laws about what women can wear in public.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2023 ‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project
The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023 Writer Margaret Atwood to receive honorary degree from St Andrews She is best known for The Handmaid’s Tale, which has since been adapted into an award-winning television series.