When Salman Rushdie attended a literary event in upstate New York on the morning of 12 August 2022, it had been 33 years since the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa for his novel “The Satanic Verses“. He writes in his new book that his first thought when he saw a masked man in black clothes running fast […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Billboard / Getty Keke Palmer is picking up her pen again. Today, the multihyphenate star announced that she will drop a new book this November. Titled “Master of Me,” the project will be Keke’s second novel. “I’m not sure the next time I’ll write a book but this seemed like the right time […]
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Oh pop culture: our shining light in bleak times, the butter to our daily bread, the ultimate distraction as the world literally burns all around us. Because of this central role in the fabric of our rapidly collapsing society, it’s covered by just about everyon and, naturally, this makes most of it shitty, regurgitated, celebrity […]
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This attempt to have it both ways may explain why some critics struggled to combat the book’s influence in the wake of its success, accusing not Kübler-Ross but the pop consensus of a willful misreading. In a critique from 1979, medical ethics professor Larry R. Churchill argued that the fault “lies not so much with […]
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David Nicholls is a “literary paradox”. The “One Day” author has “never won a major book prize, yet retains a virtually critic-proof common touch”. He’s popular with readers “because he mines with exquisite intimacy the humdrum aspects of daily life”, said The Telegraph, carving out a niche as “a poet of the mundane, like Larkin […]
Read More David Nicholls is a “literary paradox”. The “One Day” author has “never won a major book prize, yet retains a virtually critic-proof common touch”. He’s popular with readers “because he mines with exquisite intimacy the humdrum aspects of daily life”, said The Telegraph, carving out a niche as “a poet of the mundane, like Larkin […]
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Reading the grisly details of other people’s fractured intimacies can be perversely fascinating, though in this case also disquieting, because C’s identity is no secret. And because, as Jamison explains in a brief paragraph, she’s agreed with C’s request not to write about his child from his first marriage. In other words, there was another […]
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Horror novelist Sarah Langan, a three-time Bram Stoker Award winner, is the author of “Good Neighbors” and “The Keeper.” In her new novel, “A Better World,” a family relocates to […]
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In this notion of distributed intelligence, there is something both democratizing and destabilizing—a sneaky but egalitarian mode of murdering the author. Tenen insists, though, that we shouldn’t agonize too much over the source of intelligence. Who cares if our thinking is closer to the synthesis of LLMs, rather than the divinely ordained originality held dear […]
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If the low-level smugglers at the Pleasure Palace exist in ambivalent relation to the industry, Flaco and Kingston are more firmly ensconced. They have grown comfortable with violence, are more openly acquisitive, and therefore are more distasteful characters, even if De Leon openly admits that he is “charmed” by their charisma. They both speak incessantly […]
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Today’s suburban scam snares residents in aging homes and deteriorating infrastructure, as well as unfriendly schools and racism from neighbors and town leaders. Both were built in from the beginning. Penn Hills’ residents not only shrugged off collective responsibilities for their town; they also combined their poor waste management with racial aggression. In the 1960s, […]
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“The point is, HB 1285 is not ‘mission accomplished’ on stopping the needless censorship happening in FL schools, but it might slow it in certain areas,” posted the Florida Freedom to Read Project on X. “So for that, thanks for this small amendment to 1006.28. Let’s tackle this again in 2025.” Despite repeatedly insisting that […]
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No one needs an excuse to read poetry. But, should you absolutely, positively need a reason to do so, April being National Poetry Month is a fine one. These six poets are all queer, but there is no sameness to their verse. Their styles are distinct; their storytelling is too. Natalie Diaz The English language […]
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Linguist Amanda Montell is the creator of the podcast “Sounds Like a Cult” and the author of “Cultish” and “Wordslut.” Her new book, “The Age of Magical Overthinking,” explores the […]
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Though he’s had a long run as a working actor, Australian born Black Sails and INXS: Never Tear Us Apart star Luke Arnold says he’s always been a writer. He says that’s related to his favorite part of acting – figuring out the strategy for the performance more than the performance itself. For Arnold, getting […]
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In early April, Christina Sharpe, the creative nonfiction author and professor at York University in Toronto, won the prestigious Windham Campbell prize. The prize givers wrote, “recalibrating images of Black existence, Christina Sharpe’s incisive, multi-layered work demands that we wrestle with brutality as we create meaning through language and art.” Prizes are all well and […]
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The oversight is a result, perhaps, of Anderson’s strange, tenacious attachment to the idea of the nation. Waving aside “progressive, cosmopolitan intellectuals,” who point out the violence and racism of nationalism, Anderson instead focuses on how “nations inspire love.” The “cultural products” of nationalism, he tells us, “show this love very clearly,” whereas it is […]
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Screenshot The gruesome reports the world has seen have come from Gazan journalists on the ground, who have to balance their own safety—as well as that of their families—with the duty of documenting the attacks, atrocities, and daily life as the war continues into its sixth month. A small amount of media has been allowed […]
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Screenshot The gruesome reports the world has seen have come from Gazan journalists on the ground, who have to balance their own safety—as well as that of their families—with the duty of documenting the attacks, atrocities, and daily life as the war continues into its sixth month. A small amount of media has been allowed […]
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Where Butler’s earlier work focused on the potential for liberation, their new book is more concerned with understanding these fears. A lot of the relief that people feel reading Gender Trouble, for instance, comes from changing the relationship between their body and their identity, and being able to imagine that relationship changing over time. Conversely, […]
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As bright and cheerful as April weather may be, some of this month’s book releases dabble in the darker end of the literary spectrum. This list of spring books includes a mental disorder memoir, Salman Rushdie’s account of his harrowing attack, and the reclamation of a part of Harlem’s history. ‘The Cemetery of Untold Stories’ […]
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Rowan Beaird’s debut novel, “The Divorcées,” is set in 1951 at a Reno “divorce ranch” — a hotel catering to women seeking to end their marriages quickly by establishing six […]
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Allred was originally predicted to be a long-shot candidate behind Cruz. After all, it’s been 33 years since a Democrat held a statewide position in the traditionally deep-red state. But Allred has quickly picked up steam in the race, trailing behind the incumbent by just 6 percent, according to a Marist College poll conducted in […]
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Allred was originally predicted to be a long-shot candidate behind Cruz. After all, it’s been 33 years since a Democrat held a statewide position in the traditionally deep-red state. But Allred has quickly picked up steam in the race, trailing behind the incumbent by just 6 percent, according to a Marist College poll conducted in […]
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As the new financial year begins (on 6 April), it’s a good time to review your personal finances. The 2024-25 tax year brings some changes, including cuts to tax-free allowances for capital gains and dividends, so check that your savings, investments and financial planning are in the best shape possible. What They Don’t Teach You […]
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The novel becomes not just a literary thriller but an examination of the delicate mix of desire, impersonation, ambition, and selfishness that the art of literary translation requires. Playful and beautiful language is not unexpected from a translator as gifted as Croft, who has worked with authors ranging from the young Argentine story writer Federico […]
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Stephen Graham Jones’ new novel, “The Angel of Indian Lake,” completes his trilogy about a horror superfan’s encounter with an Idaho slasher. Below, the best-selling author of “The Only Good […]
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At the start of the 2010s, rates of teenage mental illness in the US, the UK and many other Western countries took a sharp upward turn, said Sophie McBain in The Guardian. “And they have been rising ever since.” In all these places, diagnoses of depression and anxiety have sky-rocketed, as have rates of self-harm […]
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In some cases the fans were intellectuals or writers. Buckley excitedly led the charge to defend Francoist Spain and apartheid South Africa (his 1957 pro-Franco missive, “Letter From Spain,” remains nauseating reading seven decades years on). In other cases, the dictators’ cheerleaders were people in positions of real power. Reagan-era fixture Jeane Kirkpatrick worked behind […]
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If you grow up in America as the average person, you’re never really in a setting where you are living democracy in action. As a child, you’re in a family, you’re told what to do; you go to school, you’re told what to do; you get a job, you’re told what to do. Where is […]
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This post was written by contributor Chelsea Becker. You know those books, full of so much information, that you read little by little? The books that are always relevant, no matter your season of life, and always give you something to think about? I call those my ‘return books’ and I have a small stack […]
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