Literary

Dear Reader, PREMIUM The Albertine Bookstore, Central Park, New York(Courtesy: The author) It’s Sunday morning in New York, and I’m sitting at the corner coffee shop, reading an interview with Annie Ernaux, last year's Nobel Prize literary legend. Outside, in the morning light, the trees blaze yellow, orange and green. A man walks by with his two little boys in tow, skipping along to keep pace, both chattering away. Annie Ernaux is talking to her interviewer about Trieste Tigre, an intense book she just…

Dear Reader, PREMIUM The Albertine Bookstore, Central Park, New York(Courtesy: The author) It’s Sunday morning in New York, and I’m sitting at the corner coffee shop, reading an interview with Annie Ernaux, last year's Nobel Prize literary legend. Outside, in the morning light, the trees blaze yellow, orange and green. A man walks by with his two little boys in tow, skipping along to keep pace, both chattering away. Annie Ernaux is talking to her interviewer about Trieste Tigre, an intense book she just…

In our June 2023 issue, we did a recap of sorts. We selected the best of fiction, poetry and non-fiction from the last 10 years and republished them for our readers both new and old. Why was TBR conceived when it was? At the time, what was the literary scene like in Bangalore and the landscape of Indian lit mags in general? The first issue of The Bangalore Literary Magazine was published on June 13, 2013. But the magazine conceptualization had begun before. Bangalore was still a small city and the literary-minded often…

Sitting with a quill and paper for hours at a time couldn’t have been easy. Perhaps that’s why most novelists, playwrights, and poets, down the centuries, nursed a pint – or two – at the neighourhood pub every evening. They weren’t the only ones! Historians, diarists, philosophers, and other authors also routinely gathered at taverns and boozers to let off steam and connect with the community. The Sherlock Holmes pub in St James’s, London (Breznay Andras/Wikimedia Commons) Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson,…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press The egos are as vast and thorny as the gardens on the lush estate of a prominent author in ” The Lesson,” an entertaining and erudite chamber piece about a master, a tutor and a family after loss. This is a story that, in different hands, could have easily turned maudlin or melodramatic, but director Alice Troughton, writer Alex MacKeith and composer Isobel Waller-Bridge opted instead for wry lightness within the construct of a slow-burn thriller. It’s as though “The Lesson,” and…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Weekend Post Movies Culture Books Classics such as King Solomon’s Mines make the hero out to simply be a dashing man of science, even though he's stealing the treasures of indigenous peoples Published Jul 01, 2023  •  Last updated 8 minutes ago  •  5 minute read Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, stealing a valuable relic of indigenous people in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the film that started the franchise. Photo by Lucasfilm Reviews and…

House of Doomed Leaves If bringing a novel to the big screen is a tough job, then making a movie into a video game tends to spell doom from the get-go. And we don’t mean the good kind of Doom. Go ahead, try to think of a film’s video game tie-in or even a less rushed adaptation that’s even a tad beyond “meh”. If it took your mind no more than one second to think of The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, then congrats. You win. But that’s an absolute anomaly in the history of video games. We’re talking about…

In 2019, Elizabeth Winkler, a young writer at the Wall Street Journal, published a provocative essay in the Atlantic under the headline “Was Shakespeare a Woman?” In it she examined the case for seeing the hand of Emilia Bassano Lanier, a poet of Italian heritage born in the 16th century, in the plays attributed to the actor from Stratford-upon-Avon. The theory had been in circulation for a while – in 2018, the Globe theatre staged Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s sellout play Emilia, which dramatised a similar argument – but…

As someone who writes books, lectures on teacher training courses and spent 15 years teaching English literature, I’m often asked what I think should be included in the literary canon or what should replace the existing canon. It feels like a trick question.First, a definition might be useful. When we say canon we’re referring to an established selection of works that have been dyed into the fabric of British education. It’s the familiar roll call of names that have featured on the curriculum seemingly for ever, and may…

Richmond, Virginia rapper McKinley Dixon broke out in 2021 with For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her, a lush collection of expansive jazz-rap tracks that made great use of his elastic flow. From bar to bar, he could shift gears from laconic and unbothered to tense and tetchy; the album’s improvisation-heavy production let Dixon stretch out and play, ducking and weaving through wandering upright bass and noodling horns.Dixon’s fourth album tightens its lens: skipping by in 30 minutes, its songs possess a renewed…