4+ hour, 20+ min ago   (1310+ words) SA literature is enjoying a TV renaissance but turning a beloved novel into compelling television requires more than transferring words from page to screen South African viewers are not new to book adaptations, with the likes of Deon Meyer and…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (648+ words) Historian, author and Red Lake Nation citizen Brenda Child had been working on a previous book of hers, Holding Our World Together, Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community, when a story from it stuck with her. “I ran across…...

16+ hour, 9+ min ago   (167+ words) August 27, 2026 by Our Reporter “May you find what you left home to look for” The collection comprises fifty-three poems across more than sixty-five pages, organised into three movements. Part One: Soil—NIGERIA opens with an epigraph from Vincent van Gogh:…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1038+ words) Visit Las Cruces Bulletin Award-winning author Kevin Fedarko will appear at 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, at the Glenwood Community Library, 14 Menges Lane in Glenwood. For information, call 575-539-2277. Both his books,The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (621+ words) Dante’s decision to write his 14th-century "The Divine Comedy" in Florentine vernacular, not in Latin, shaped the Italian language spoken by 60 million people today. In 1265, when Dante was born in Florence, Tuscany, the Italian peninsula was politically fractured among independent…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (812+ words) The outcome of today's space race is far from certain Suppose China were to reach Mars with a manned mission before the United States. That scenario is ugly and one that Rainer Zitelmann — historian, sociologist, author — dangles before readers toward…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (158+ words) In the real world, however, each of these five novels was deeply influenced by the time during which they were written, with Pargin bringing up the edgy cynicism of the ’90s Clinton era which informed John Dies at the End and…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (552+ words) Alison Flood is New Scientist’s comment and culture editor. She has a degree in English literature from the University of Cambridge and was previously books writer for The Guardian. She is judging the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2024, chairs…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (600+ words) In Open The Floodgates, the River is trying to revise part of its statement to the court: Defining Person (per-son) 3.(for now) dusty, crackling land / a deep cut in the earth / no rushing water no bubbling, no babbling / no gushing…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (380+ words) It had been written and signed in March 1, 1955 A homeowner was left stunned after finding a mystery letter hidden behind the wall of his home for 71 years. Brendon Swallow has lived in his property for 13 years, but only stumbled across…...