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This wild and witty takedown of 21st-century America is narrated by a big cat stalking LA

The biblical buddy comedy of epic proportions is back, taking the story beyond its source material

We recently saw yet another controversy about sexual representation in Australia. Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes’ book Welcome to Sex was attacked by the conservative group Australian Women’s Forum, leading to the book being removed from the shelves of Big W – and shooting to the top of the Amazon…

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

At a one-day workshop in Shivamogga, Dr. Veena M.K. said literary theories help readers analyse texts from different perspectives. Dr. T. Avinash argued that theories can be applied to texts without losing their essence. Experts demonstrated how theories can be applied to a poem, essay, and short story. The workshop…

The Nobel laureate’s new collection of stories is concerned with death, desire and old age, glinting with flashes of humour and grand, existential strangeness

The acclaimed Japanese author’s deceptively simple writing combines fantasy and reality in stories of everything from missing cats to dystopian histories via fantasy thrillers and meditations on love. Then he told us about running

In spring of 2023, I taught a class on memoir at the California Institution for Women, a medium-security facility, in Chino.

Roald Dahl Museum's Teaching Resources On Prejudice Draw From Classics Like 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory'

Devaki Nilayamgode's memoir, "Nashtabodhangalillathe", made waves in Kerala with its warts-and-all, insider account of the life of an Antharjanam (a Namboodiri woman). She had started writing in her 70s and was around 75 when the book was published. Meeting the author gave the translator Radhika P. Menon insight into her…

A fugitive seeks refuge in a 1960s commune in the Lake District, in an energetic novel that captures an era