A new “council of experts” set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay “propaganda” to censure books. The move marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s control of information by targeting a broad array of literature, a…
Cambridge (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Agatha Christie’s 1930s typewriter and the manuscript of her final Hercule Poirot novel, which was kept for decades in a bank vault, go on display Saturday in a new exhibition delving into the “dark stuff” at…
The French Foreign Ministry has banned the publication of a book by its former ambassador to Niger, Sylvain Eté, under several pretexts, including invoking the country’s law on the protection of national defense secrets. In writing “At the Heart of…
Irish author Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday for his novel “Prophet Song,” a dystopian work about an Ireland that descends into tyranny. The 46-year-old pipped five other shortlisted novelists to the prestigious award at a ceremony…
Moscow (AFP) – Yelena Efros has been sending letters to Russian prisons for years, as the head of a volunteer group writing regular dispatches to the country’s swelling ranks of political prisoners. But six months ago, she found herself staring down…
Bsharre (Lebanon) (AFP) – Nestled in the mountains of northern Lebanon, a museum dedicated to Kahlil Gibran in his hometown of Bsharre has been celebrating the centennial of “The Prophet”, the renowned author’s most famous work Since it was first…
Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Inside Kyiv’s St Michael’s cathedral, mourners gathered Tuesday to bid farewell to Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who died of her wounds suffered in a Russian missile strike on a restaurant. A mourner at the…
LONDON (AP) — Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel won the International Booker Prize on Tuesday for “Time Shelter,” a darkly comic novel about the dangerous appeal of nostalgia. The book beat five other finalists to the prize, which recognizes…
LONDON (AP) — Books that explore subjects from William Shakespeare and The Beatles to the lure of Mount Everest and life inside one of the world’s most secretive states are competing to be named the best-ever winner of Britain’s leading…
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