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Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time

Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust

The Walrus

TS Eliot prize for poetry shortlist contains ‘a strong strain of elegy’

The authors include Gboyega Odubanjo, whose debut collection was published posthumously, Carl Phillips and Karen McCarthy Woolf

The Guardian - UK

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel

A young queer activist looks back on how a complex life unspooled into a final, fatal act in the award-winning poet’s ambitious, unflinching tale

The Guardian - UK

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Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114

The Guardian - UK

10 writers win 2024 Whiting Awards for emerging authors

Each writer will receive $50,000 to help support their craft — one of largest awards granted to new authors.

WEKU

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize

Judges praised the ‘imaginative capacity and technical flair’ of a collection that draws connections between Shakespeare’s hero and today’s immigrants

The Guardian - UK

A library of the ‘future’: Can it make the world a better place?

Each year, a new manuscript will be sealed in the Silent Room in the Future Library in Norway. The goal? Inspire hope.

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Patrick Farmer's Top 10 of 2023

A lot happened this year, both at work and in my personal life. Here are some of my favorite things.

Android Central

Lucy Yu’s thriving New York bookstore burned down. How can she rebuild without burning out?

Lucy Yu’s bookstore features works by immigrants and people of color, but a fire earlier this year decimated her business

The Guardian - US

Van Huynh Company: Re:birth review – a swirling portrayal of the exhaustion of exile

The UK-based Vietnamese dancer and choreographer stages a piece inspired by the horror and dislocation of war with experimental vocals from Elaine Mitchener

The Guardian - UK

‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library

The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project

The Guardian - UK

Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world

The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant

The Guardian - UK

Arlo Parks: ‘Hip-hop and rap are really beautiful forms of poetry – and an accessible entry point for many’

The acclaimed singer on her debut poetry collection, touring again and the community of women musicians – including Florence Welch and Phoebe Bridgers – who offer each other advice and support

Evening Standard

NYFW: Ralph Lauren’s new American Dream & Helmut Lang’s return to the runways

New York Fashion Week continued this weekend with shows from Ralph Lauren, Helmut Lang, Proenza Schouler and Khaite. Laura Antonia Jordan reports on everything you need to know

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Maxine Hong Kingston, bell hooks among those honored by Ishmael Reed's Before Columbus Foundation

Maxine Hong Kingston, Darryl Pinckney and the late bell hooks were among the authors honored this year by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by Ishmael Reed that celebrates multicultural literature

Salon

How to properly store fresh herbs

Fresh herbs are a perfect ingredient. Storing them is . . . not easy. Here's how to boost their longevity

The Guardian - UK

When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar review – a poetic tale of familial grief

The emotional journey of three orphaned Muslim American siblings is evoked with heart-rending precision

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: shifting ground in North Korea, heartbreak advice from a centenarian and is Nick Cave conservative?

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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Ocean Vuong: ‘I don’t believe a writer should just keep writing as long as they’re alive’

The award-winning poet and author on bringing his career to a meaningful end, processing the death of his mother via verse, and his love of mixed martial arts

Evening Standard

Greta Thunberg to appear at Edinburgh Book Festival: When is it and how to attend

Swedish activist in Scottish capital to promote The Climate Book

Evening Standard

Literary escapes! 10 top London authors on their summer must-reads

Classic romance novels, epic sci-fi, poetic prose — Alex Peake-Tomkinson quizzes writers from Jessie Burton to Diana Evans on their all-time favourite literary escapes

The Guardian - US

‘A culture, a people, an ethos’: one of the US’s oldest Asian American bookstores closes

As Eastwind Books of Berkeley shutters in California, local residents mourn the loss of a community

The Independent UK

Max Porter: ‘Empower yourself to think carefully about men and masculinity’

As he releases his fourth novel, ‘Shy’, Max Porter talks to Patrick Sproull about the end of his ‘boyhood’ trilogy, sensitivity readers, and still reading Philip Roth and Ted Hughes

WEKU

2023 Whiting Awards recognize 10 emerging writers

The recipients of the $50,000 prize, which was announced on Wednesday evening, show an exceeding amount of talent and promise, according to the prize's judges.

The Conversation

National Theatre’s Phaedra review: suicide tragedy leaves a bad taste

Suicide is an act so shocking and violent that it undoes not only sensation, memory and feeling, but meaning. Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong describes how it unpicks even the connective tissue of language.

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