Vincent Kling has been announced as this year’s winner of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his NYRB Classics translation of Heimito von Doderer’s novel The Strudlhof Steps. Administered each spring by the Goethe-Institut, the award comes with a prize of $10,000. Read more
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Authors from 30 countries held an “emergency” meeting at the United Nations to address the multiple crises of the moment — and whether stories can help. Read more
As downtown Chicago creaks slowly, slooooooowly, back to where it was before the pandemic, the American Writers Museum on Michigan Avenue has grown antsy. Its fifth-year anniversary was approaching, though like other cultural attractions, attendance had thinned. So in true big city rent-party fashion, they decided to invite everyone over. Read more
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How one very young man changed the course of publishing and intellectual life in America. Read more
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American novelist, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood has won the £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for her “searingly witty and innovative take on modern day internet culture”. Read more
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They’re the most prestigious awards in America, not just for journalists, but historians, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, composers and novelists. Read more
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An online essay in which the writer Jumi Bello explained copying others’ work for her novel was itself removed after further plagiarism was found. Read more
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Set on just over half an acre of land, the house borders 45 acres of preserve, which makes for peaceful, pastoral views of flora and fauna all year round. Asking $1.2 million… Read more
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“This is a masterwork in which Lehman’s encyclopedic knowledge of film, literature, and cultural history is synthesized by way of lively exegesis, quotes, poems (his own), catalogs, mini-biographies, and eclectic, brilliantly illuminated byways, both classical and pulp. His vivid, chromatic style is what one expects from a poet and critic of Lehman’s stature. The Mysterious Romance of Murder must take a prominent place, stylistically and critically, alongside Luc Sante’s Low Life, Julian Symons’s Bloody Murder, and Cyril Connolly’s The Unquiet Grave. As with the very best mysteries—of the heart and the intellect—you can’t put it down.” – Nicholas Christopher
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The playwright Alice Childress, who lived from 1916 to 1994, never saw her work produced on Broadway. Unlike some of her Black contemporaries—Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson—she wasn’t canonized or widely taught. In her later years, “she felt like she had been forgotten,” the dramaturge Arminda Thomas said the other day. Lately, though, Childress has been remembered. This past winter, her 1955 play, “Trouble in Mind,” about an actress navigating backstage racism, made its long-awaited Broadway début. And, this month, Theatre for a New Audience is staging her drama “Wedding Band” at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, in Brooklyn, its first New York production in half a century. Read more
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