A TV screen shows an image of the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, South Korean writer Han Kang, during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on Thursday. South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked …
Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans and critics Declan Fry and Cher Tan. The resulting list features a story of female coming-of-age set inside Warhol's Factory; an "autobiography of the audience" that asks if we can enjoy the art of bad people; a freewheeling historical fiction …
