See reviews of the International Booker Prize shortlisted novels

Posted on 04/06/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

On the same day that NPR posted its review of Hurricane Season, it was revealed that the book had made...

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Here's the 2020 International Booker Prize shortlist

Posted on 04/02/2020 at 07:54 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The story of the International Booker Prize longlist was the number of small presses represented. The story of the shortlist?...

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Quarantine reading from throughout history

Posted on 03/31/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many of us use books as an escape from reality, so for them, “plague reading” would simply mean fiction they...

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Tagged As: Book club, Book lists, coronavirus / COVID-19, History, Literature in translation, The Guardian

Literary award administrators decide to share the prize money

Posted on 03/30/2020 at 08:31 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The administrators of a literary prize have chosen one winner, but they’re splitting the prize money among the entire shortlist...

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Jennifer Croft on the wild ride of translation

Posted on 03/01/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Jet lag is no fun on its own, but imagine jet lag with an incredible amount of work pressure on...

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The 2020 International Booker Prize longlist is out

Posted on 02/27/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Eight languages and nine small presses are represented on this year's International Booker Prize longlist. The contenders for the £50,000...

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Watch the trailer for season two of "My Brilliant Friend"

Posted on 02/25/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We have a trailer for the next season of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet. Season two of My Brilliant Friend is...

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See the cover of Elena Ferrante's next novel, "The Lying Life of Adults"

Posted on 02/11/2020 at 03:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The US and UK cover of The Lying Life of Adults — the upcoming novel from My Brilliant Friend author...

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Italian reader previews "The Lying Life of Adults" for Americans

Posted on 01/29/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Elena Ferrante’s next novel, The Lying Life of Adults, has been out in Italy for a few months now. It...

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Recent literary deaths: Chukwuemeka Ike, Alasdair Gray, and John Rothchild

Posted on 01/13/2020 at 11:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Several literary obituaries have popped up in our newsfeed recently ... Chukwuemeka Ike, described as one of Nigeria’s most-read novelists,...

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Tagged As: Literature in translation, Nonfiction, Obituary