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Do we need a new punctuation mark for the digital age? Specifically, this one?
Hilary Mantel: why novelists are deliberately misunderstood.
Rothwell’s speech, like his book, is a mood piece, the intervals between make as much of the music as do the notes. That is his unusual, Rilkean, gift. Read WH Chong’s recap of last night’s event with Nicolas Rothwell at Readings Hawthorn.
Herman Koch, author of The Dinner, talks to NPR about writing, parenthood and the lengths we’ll go to to protect our families.
Proof, in case you needed it, that reading saves lives.
At a time when writers and publishers shy away from the obscure and the oblique, Rothwell’s ambition and the intricacy of his book must be acknowledged. Andrew Riemer’s review of Nicolas Rothwell’s Belomor.
If you lived in a world made of books, it might look a little something like this.
Related: how to make a headboard for your bed.
Personal ads in the New York Review of Books: helping nerds get dates since 1963.
Lots of US press for Herman Koch’s The Dinner!
An interview with Herman Koch on CBS News.
A review of The Dinner in USA Today.
The Daily Beast asks: can Herman Koch’s The Dinner take America by storm?
Another moving, brilliant interview with Damien Echols, author of Life After Death, on Sunday Night Safran. West of Memphis, the Peter Jackson–produced documentary about the West Memphis Three, is out in Australia on Thursday.
An award-winning essay by Hedley Twidle on J. M. Coetzee and South African literature.
Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellarman claim that most of what you think you know about grammar is wrong; others say that most of what O'Conner and Kellarman think about grammar is wrong.
