Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
‘Read this. Read the story of Damien Echols and tell me you still support the death penalty. I dare you,’ says the Otago Daily Times, calling Damien Echols' Read more
Listen to Eleanor Learmonth chat with Kim Hill on Radio NZ about her new book, co-written with Jenny Tabakoff, No Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality.
Liao offers neither a diagnosis of China’s ills nor prescriptions for their cure. He simply wants to describe the world as he sees it. Liao Yiwu’s prison memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs, in the New York Times.
The crisis of book cover design.
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Listen to Gabriel Roth, author of The Unknowns, on the Bat Segundo show.
John Updike’s advice to young writers: ‘reserve an hour a day’.
Listen to journalist and author Daniel Bergner on Life Matters discussing his new book, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire.
Book covers, before and after: 4 designers discuss their recent covers and why some designs won out over other options.
The layers of meaning and reference, autobiographical elements, vivid and poetic language, characterisation and satire in Frame’s second posthumously published novel In the Memorial Room show again why she is one of New Zealand’s literary greats. The Read more
Everything in this novel is about opposites—life and death, love and hate, good and evil, yin and yang—but nothing is black and white. Natsuo Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle reviewed at Three Percent.
Listen to A. J. Betts on Radio National’s Life Matters discussing her Text Prize–winning novel, Zac & Mia, and her heartbreaking experiences working with young people in an oncology ward.
Why do writers drink? Besides the usual reasons, I guess.
Guys, The Spare Room is an incredible novel. Nicole Cliffe loves Helen Garner.
Do you know what a ‘plewd’ is? How about a ‘quimp’ or a ‘grawlix’? The fascinating secret language of comic strips.
