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Golden Globes 2025: Payal Kapadia loses Best Director award to Brady Corbet

Director Payal Kapadia came close to winning the Best Director award at this year's Golden Globes but lost to Brady Corbet for The Brutalist. Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light also received a nomination for Best Non-English Language Motion Picture, competing against Emilia Perez, I'm Still Here, and The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Watch Golden Globes 2025 updates …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel for 2025 Booker Prize

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As the Prize opens for submissions from publishers on Tuesday, the panel will also feature …

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1 month ago

In the vast cosmos | Review of Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu

What does it mean to fail oneself? Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment, longlisted for the Booker Prize this year, steps into the porous boundary between history and the now. If the novel were merely about these two, it might still succeed, but Perry’s attempt is to transcend character. Yet, Grace’s story is not merely about moral transgression; it is about the anatomy …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky

Hindustan Times

Autumn is turning into winter. Orbital by Samantha Harvey Reading the Booker Prize shortlisted quietly contemplative Stone Yard Devotional, I am comforted to find author Charlotte Wood objecting to these supermarket sachets. In Orbital, I am in outer space with four astronauts and two cosmonauts watching “the continents and oceans fall away beneath — the lavender Arctic, the eastern tip …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It was my main reference point,” she said in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s …

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The Hindu On Books newsletter: Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’, Aditya Iyer’s ‘Gully Gully’ and more

The Hindu

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. It reflects Harvey’s extraordinary intensity of attention to the precious and precarious world we share.” In her review, Nandini Bhatia writes that Harvey offers a unique perspective in her novel, which concludes with a panoramic view of the “beautiful velvety poverty of man on earth that tips into the void”. …

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2 months ago

Drawn to the depths | Review of ‘Playground’ by Richard Powers

The Hindu

Richard Powers’s readers know they come to his novels at the risk of being haunted by the endless possibilities the stories present. The two men, Rafi and Tod, young students in Chicago, are smitten from the word, well, go: Rafi, the bibliophile who will give up everything for a simpler life, tells Todd, the coding whiz who’ll become an AI …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Fierce Eight: A Boxing Odyssey of Resilience and Determination

The Hindu

A novel titled 'Headshot' by Rita Bullwinkel explores the lives of eight feisty female boxers from different backgrounds and experiences. The story highlights the challenges and triumphs faced by these young women as they pursue their boxing dreams, while also examining the social, economic, and cultural factors that shape their lives.

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3 months ago

Tune in to a mini-concert with TEKE::TEKE : World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast : NPR

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Tune in to a mini-concert with TEKE::TEKE YouTube Set List "Doppelganger" "Garakuta" "Kodomo No Kuni" "Hoppe" The Montreal band TEKE::TEKE began in a record store, when band member Serge Nakauchi Pelletier found an album from Japanese guitarist Takeshi Terauchi. In the 60s, Terauchi played "eleki" music, Japanese folk rock instrumentals inspired by American surf-rock music. TEKE::TEKE originally formed as a …

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4 months, 1 week ago

The best new books to read this September

The Independent

Albert Einstein fled potential Nazi assassins for a haven in the UK. Anyone who has seen the stuffed Walrus in the Horniman Museum will smile at his description: “The skins were sent from Canada to a Victorian taxidermist who’d never seen a one before – and they clearly didn’t know that a walrus had saggy folds, so just kept stuffing …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Clare Chambers: Best and worst compliment? ‘My mum loves your books’

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The first book I ever loved obsessively… I have …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Australian author Charlotte Wood longlisted for Booker Prize for Stone Yard Devotional

ABC

Australian author Charlotte Wood has been longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in international literature, for her latest novel, Stone Yard Devotional. Sarah L'Estrange, from ABC RN's The Book Show, called Stone Yard Devotional "a quiet, contemplative novel". Critic Kate Evans, host of ABC RN's The Bookshelf, describes Stone Yard Devotional as an "excellent …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Review: Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie

Hindustan Times

Peace Adzo Medie’s Nightbloom, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2024, follows the lives of cousins Selasi and Akorfa as they grow up together in a small town in Ghana and then eventually grow apart. She remembers being told at pre-college sessions at the United States cultural center to keep her Ghanaian habits at bay but they “conveniently forgot …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Review of Veronica Raimo’s ‘Lost on Me’, translated by Leah Janeczko and longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu

Veronica Raimo’s Lost on Me is a literary feast for lovers of Fleabag and Natalia Ginzburg’s novels. Like Fleabag, Raimo’s protagonist, Vero, is a young-ish woman who puts a comic spin on her failed relationships. In another instance, Vero’s father calls her ‘oca’ which means goose or bimbo, he also lovingly calls her a cow. For this reason, whenever I …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Review of Ismail Kadare’s ‘A Dictator Calls’, translated by John Hodgson and longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu

For the uninitiated, a tyrant first learns to master storytelling. But it’s one of the major themes of the 2024 International Booker Prize-longlisted novel, A Dictator Calls: The Mystery of the Stalin-Pasternak Telephone Call. Written by Ismail Kadare, the inaugural winner of the Man Booker International Prize, and exquisitely translated from the Albanian by his long-time collaborator John Hodgson, A …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

The Hindu on Books | Memoirs of Aruna Roy, Bela Bhatia; talking to Karthik Muralidharan, Salim Durani’s biography and more

The Hindu

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. But, she writes, that lack of money is only one aspect of it; there are other worries like indebtedness, illness, powerlessness, humiliation and violence that “follow them around like shadows.” In reviews, we read Neel Mukherjee’s new novel, Peace Adzo Medie’s Nightbloom, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2024 …

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7 months, 1 week ago

The best new books released in May, as selected by avid readers and critics

ABC

Another month, another slew of incredible books that take us from Noongar country to Ireland and South Africa, from behind the bars of a detention centre to a suburban cul-de-sac. Our trusted gang of avid readers — The Book Show's Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange, ABC Arts' Nicola Heath, and critics Declan Fry and Rosie Ofori Ward — have picked …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

International Booker Prize 2024 | In ‘Kairos’, Jenny Erpenbeck offers an East German perspective

The Hindu

Published : May 22, 2024 17:33 IST - 5 MINS READ Ask your average German about Jenny Erpenbeck, and they may very well respond, “Jenny who?” Yet the contemporary German author has made a name for herself beyond Germany’s borders; she’s showered with prizes and has even been predicted to one day win the Nobel Prize in literature. Yet, in …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Stacey Solomon puts on a leggy display in a strapless gown after skipping the star-studded red carpet at the BAFTA Television Awards 2024

Daily Mail

Stacey Solomon dressed to impress in a black strapless gown as she attended the 2024 British Academy Television Awards at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday. Stacey Solomon dressed to impress in a black strapless gown as she attended the 2024 British Academy Television Awards at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday The presenter looked incredible in the glittering number …

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Claudia Winkleman shows off her trademark fringe as she attends the BAFTA Television Awards 2024 in a cream trouser-suit

Daily Mail

Claudia Winkleman stunned on the red carpet as she arrived at the 2024 British Academy Television Awards at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday. Claudia Winkleman stunned on the red carpet as she arrived at the 2024 British Academy Television Awards at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday The TV presenter, 52, looked nothing short of sensational in a cream …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Anita Rani, 46, leaves little to the imagination as she shows off her toned physique in a transparent pearl dress and nude bodysuit at the BAFTA Television Awards 2024

Daily Mail

Anita Rani looked unrecognisable as she attended the star-studded BAFTA Television Awards in a very racy number on Sunday night. Anita Rani looked unrecognisable as she attended the star-studded BAFTA Television Awards in a very racy number on Sunday night The Woman's Hour veteran exuded glamour as she shot a sultry look to the camera, with a smokey silver eye …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Alex Scott looks every inch the golden goddess in a figure-hugging knit dress as she attends the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards without girlfriend Jess Glynne

Daily Mail

Alex Scott looked every inch the golden goddess as she attended the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards on Sunday evening. Alex Scott looked every inch the golden goddess as she attended the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards on Sunday The sports presenter, 39, looked sensational as she stepped out in a figure-hugging golden knit dress The TV BAFTA WINNERS at a glance …

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10 months ago

The Stella Prize 2024 longlist features Katherine Brabon, Kate Mildenhall and Melissa Lucashenko

ABC

The longlist for the $60,000 Stella Prize has been announced at a ceremony at Adelaide Festival as part of Writers' Week. Twelve books have been longlisted for the 2024 prize, including Alexis Wright's "abundant odyssey" Praiseworthy, Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko, and the acclaimed book about chronic illness and friendship, Body Friend by Katherine Brabon. First Nations reading guide Photo shows …

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1 year ago

How the Wild West inspired one of Ireland’s top experimental novelists

LA Times

On the Shelf This Plague of Souls By Mike McCormack Soho: 192 pages, $27 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Being in the west, we like to see ourselves as wild and untamed and untamable.” McCormack’s 2017 novel, “ Solar Bones,” was longlisted for the …

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Golden Globes 2025: Payal Kapadia loses Best Director award to Brady Corbet

Sarah Jessica Parker joins judging panel for 2025 Booker Prize

In the vast cosmos | Review of Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky

British author Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital

The Hindu On Books newsletter: Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize for ‘Orbital’, Aditya Iyer’s ‘Gully Gully’ and more

Drawn to the depths | Review of ‘Playground’ by Richard Powers

The Fierce Eight: A Boxing Odyssey of Resilience and Determination

Tune in to a mini-concert with TEKE::TEKE : World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast : NPR

The best new books to read this September

Clare Chambers: Best and worst compliment? ‘My mum loves your books’

Australian author Charlotte Wood longlisted for Booker Prize for Stone Yard Devotional

Review: Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie

Review of Veronica Raimo’s ‘Lost on Me’, translated by Leah Janeczko and longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

Review of Ismail Kadare’s ‘A Dictator Calls’, translated by John Hodgson and longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu on Books | Memoirs of Aruna Roy, Bela Bhatia; talking to Karthik Muralidharan, Salim Durani’s biography and more

The best new books released in May, as selected by avid readers and critics

International Booker Prize 2024 | In ‘Kairos’, Jenny Erpenbeck offers an East German perspective

Stacey Solomon puts on a leggy display in a strapless gown after skipping the star-studded red carpet at the BAFTA Television Awards 2024

Claudia Winkleman shows off her trademark fringe as she attends the BAFTA Television Awards 2024 in a cream trouser-suit

Anita Rani, 46, leaves little to the imagination as she shows off her toned physique in a transparent pearl dress and nude bodysuit at the BAFTA Television Awards 2024

Alex Scott looks every inch the golden goddess in a figure-hugging knit dress as she attends the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards without girlfriend Jess Glynne

The Stella Prize 2024 longlist features Katherine Brabon, Kate Mildenhall and Melissa Lucashenko

How the Wild West inspired one of Ireland’s top experimental novelists