When 17-year-old Paul joins the Western Front in World War I, his initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches. Watch trailer
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Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell
Fifty “often overlooked and unloved” works of literature get their time in the sun as novelist and publisher Russell presents books that influenced him … Filled with quirky observations and personal asides, this is just right for book lovers. Read more
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Goldsmiths Prize Goes to Collaborative Duo Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams
Their novel Diego Garcia, which took a decade to complete and addresses the losses of the Chagos islanders, wins prize for innovative fiction. Read more
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HarperCollins Workers Strike for Better Pay and Benefits
Publishing has long been a low paying industry with long hours for its entry and midlevel employees, and it is based in New York, a very expensive city. It is also an overwhelmingly white industry, and many in the industry feel the low pay is part of what makes diversifying the industry difficult. Read more
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2022 World Fantasy Award Winners
The World Fantasy Award winners for works published in 2021 have been announced during the 2022 World Fantasy Convention, held November 3-6, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. The Life Achievement Awards, presented annually to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the fantasy field, went to Samuel R. Delany and Terri Windling. Read more
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Fleishman Is In Trouble, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, and Lizzy Caplan
Fleishman Is In Trouble is the story of recently divorced 41-year-old “Toby Fleishman” (Jesse Eisenberg), who dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had dating in his youth. But just at the start of his first summer of sexual freedom, his ex-wife disappears, leaving him with the kids and no hint of where she is or whether she plans to return. Watch trailer
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‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan
The biggest, most intricately ambitious little story you’ll read this year. Read more
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Shaun Tan’s Curious Creatures are Just Looking for Companionship
Artist and author Shaun Tan creates semi-mechanical and animalesque beings that seem born of both the natural world and industrious humans. Whimsical, cerebral, socially aware, grotesque and cuddly, Tan’s artistic universe runs the emotional gamut. Read more
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Brigitte Giraud Becomes 13th Woman to Win Prix Goncourt
Vivre Vite, an autobiographical novel about the death of her husband, wins France’s most prestigious literary award. Read more
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The Dreariness of Book Club Discussions
We enjoy each other’s company. We drink coffee, we eat crackers, we get reacquainted with each other’s love lives, and we have an excuse to read the books that’ll appear on The New York Times’s notable list this year. And of course, reading the books is the point. The whole book club is predicated on the notion that reading these books will improve our minds in some way, and that it’ll contribute measurably to our intellectual lives. And yet, month after month, I leave each meeting feeling as if we’ve engaged in an empty, meaningless exercise. Read more
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