Shanny BasarJoseph Stalin The Man Who Saw Everythinglithub.com The following is excerpted from Deborah Levy's novel. Levy has been a Booker Prize finalist for Hot Milk and Swimming Home. She trained at Dartington …
Shanny BasarMughals The Two Mughal Princes Who Stood in the Way of the British East India Companylithub.com - By William Dalrymple The city of Murshidabad, the capital of late Mughal Bengal, lay three days’ sailing from Calcutta up the Bhagirathi, one of the two headstreams of …
Shanny BasarBooks Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work to remain unseen until 2114The Guardian - Alison FloodKarl Ove Knausgaard, who detailed the minutiae of his own life in the six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, has taken on a new challenge: the Norwegian writer is to become the sixth contributor
Shanny BasarBooks 'Oh man, she's back': Elizabeth Strout on the return of Olive KitteridgeThe Guardian - Emma BrockesShe had been writing for about 15 years by then, without much success. 'I was trying to write like a Writer, instead of finding my own voice' There is a moment in Olive, Again, the eagerly awaited follow-up
Shanny BasarJack Reacher Fearless, free and feminist: the enduring appeal of Jack ReacherThe Guardian - Charlotte HigginsReacher respects and likes women. Finds them delightful, and sexy. But not in a creepy way Women want to be Jack Reacher: to abandon all responsibilities, to be physically invincible This month, Lee Child’s
Shanny BasarBernardine Evaristo Booker Prize: Will Gompertz reviews Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo ★★★★☆bbc.co.uk - Will GompertzIndecision is not a trait you'll find in any of the 12 female characters in Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other. They're a feisty bunch. Unlike this year's Booker Prize judges who bottled it
Shanny BasarHistory Three finalists revealed for international history writing prizehistoryextra.com - Elinor Evans The three historians recognised in the final stages of the $75,000 Cundill History Prize have been revealed… Nazi legacies, Maoism, and American …
Shanny BasarCulture In 'Olive, Again,' Elizabeth Strout Revisits An Old FriendNPR - Heller McAlpinTen years after Elizabeth Strout won a Pulitzer Prize for her eponymous collection of linked stories about Olive Kitteridge, a difficult but endearing, retired but not retiring middle school math teacher,
Shanny BasarLifestyle (UK) How does His Dark Materials series compare to the books?Good Housekeeping - Megan Sutton This autumn and winter, Sunday night TV will be lit up by an eight-part adaptation of His Dark Materials starring Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy and Dafne …
Shanny BasarBooks Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré review – thriller laced with Brexit furyThe Guardian - Steven PooleThis is dramatic chamber music, in which conversation creates all the suspense and slow-dawning revelation one could want John le Carré’s novels contain flurries of physical activity – moodily described
Shanny BasarWriting Deborah Levy Beats Writers’ Block by… Swimminglithub.com - By Literary Hub Deborah Levy’s The Man Who Saw Everything is out now from Bloomsbury, so we asked her a few questions about the writer’s craft, beloved books, and …
Shanny BasarActivism Inspired by AOC, Megan Rapinoe and Greta Thunberg? You should be, according to this listMarketWatch - By Nicole Lyn Pesce The BBC dropped its 2019 list of the 100 most inspiring and influential women across the globe on Wednesday, and it should come as no surprise that …
Shanny BasarPhilip Pullman How Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust appears in the BBC's His Dark Materialsradiotimes.com - Huw Fullerton How Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust appears in the BBC’s His Dark Materials EXCLUSIVE: Here’s how the BBC adaptation adds the new novels to the existing …
Shanny BasarNeurophilosophy Five Books: The best books on Global Cultural Understanding, recommended by Ash Aminfivebooks.com - by Kwame Anthony Appiah We’re talking about the books on the shortlist of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize, which celebrates books that promote ‘global cultural …
Shanny Basar Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulknerlithub.com - By Harold Bloom Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant now than when it was written. The …
Shanny BasarElton John Me by Elton John review – hilariously self-laceratingThe Guardian - Hadley FreemanElton makes fun of no one more than himself. He is utterly, astonishingly, hilariously self-lacerating Choosing one’s favourite Elton John story – like choosing one’s favourite Elton song – can feel like
Shanny BasarCreative Writing Bernardine Evaristo: ‘Older black women, who writes about that?’ | Interview with Five Dialspenguin.co.uk Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning author of eight books of fiction and verse fiction. Her other writing includes short fiction, drama, poetry, …
Shanny BasarMan Booker Prize Booker Prize: with two winners it's a double-edged victory – perhaps Bernadine Evaristo needed the recognition moreThe Conversation UK - Clare Hutton For the first time since 1992 – and only the third time in the illustrious history of the Booker – the prize has been awarded to two novels: The …
Shanny BasarThe Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood on the real-life events that inspired The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testamentspenguin.co.uk Since its release in 1985, Margaret Atwood has been asked the same question about The Handmaid’s Tale: ‘how did you come up with this stuff’? Her …
Shanny BasarEdward Hopper Elizabeth Strout on Writers’ Block, the Art of Edward Hopper, and Morelithub.com - By Literary Hub Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, Olive, Again is out now from Random House, so we asked her to take our writer’s questionnaire. Who do you most wish would …
Shanny BasarWonderful to celebrate with the TWO winners of @TheBookerPrizes - @MargaretAtwood and @BernardineEvari @BBCr4todaytwitter.com
Shanny BasarEntertainment (UK) Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share awardbbc.co.uk - BBC News Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been named the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie.
Shanny BasarIcon version of the Flipboard logoBooks Best Fiction of 2019: Booker Prize | Five Books Expert Recommendationsfivebooks.com - Stephanie Kelley Each year, a panel of esteemed judges reads over 100 novels to determine which titles will vie for the award of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Peter …
Shanny BasarBooks Booker prize shortlist 2019: who to put your money onThe Guardian - Alex PrestonA novel that makes you question whether it should strictly be called a novel is by default a good thing It’s perhaps testimony to the golden moment that the novel in English is currently enjoying that
Shanny BasarGeorge Michael In Book, Andrew Ridgeley Pays Tribute To George Michael And A More Innocent Pop EraNPR - Maura JohnstonAndrew Ridgeley's memoir is titled Wham!: George Michael and Me, a winking nod to his status in the pop duo Wham!, whose soul-tinged songs were some of the MTV era's most resounding moments. A memoir a
Shanny BasarMan Booker Prize Olga’s road to the Nobel | The Booker Prizesthebookerprizes.com Many congratulations to Man Booker International prize winner Olga Tokarczuk who has just been named one of the winners of the second most …
Shanny BasarCulture Deborah Levy’s Disorienting, Captivating FictionThe Atlantic - Rachel DonadioThe British novelist’s wry books veer from concrete realism to fractured blends of dream and memory. In her autobiographical essay Things I Don’t Want to Know (2013), the British novelist, playwright,
Shanny Basar Read Olga Tokarczuk’s response to winning the Nobel Prize.lithub.com - By Emily Temple Riverhead has released a newly translated statement from Olga Tokarczuk, who won a Nobel Prize in Literature this week. “Olga had been unreachable …
Shanny BasarBooks 'My ties to England have loosened': John le Carré on Britain, Boris and BrexitThe Guardian - John BanvilleMob orators of Boris Johnson's sort do not speak reason – your task is to fire up the people with nostalgia, with anger My dad for part of my childhood was in prison. So I arrived in the heartland of
