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In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...
Sadly, the pair stopped short of what I view as the greatest challenge: producing novels that reflect what Americans like and dislike in fiction. Now, at last, with People’s Choice Literature, by the ...
Hundreds of book lovers turned up at NUS Library's book adoption and exchange drive on Saturday (June 14) to pick up some of the discarded books from Yale-NUS College. Held outside the NUS Central ...
Barbara Holdridge and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of such famous writers as Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot reciting their work. Holdridge died Monday at 95.
Benyamin, translated by Ministhy S. The award-winning Malayalam writer’s latest translated novel reimagines the life and times of Jesus Christ to present a secular version of a revolutionary’s fight ...
Stein’s struggles were amplified by Joyce’s triumphs – but they both shared an artistic vision Gertrude Stein at her desk in Paris in the 1930s. Photo: Getty James Joyce and Gertrude Stein ...
In the Autobiography, Stein had adopted Toklas’s voice so convincingly that many readers believed Toklas must have written the book herself — or else was an entirely fictional character.
Helen Lewis, Francesca Wade and Dean Van Nguyen discuss the concept of genius with Adam Rutherford ...
Biography can be the gateway to understanding and, more than that, to enjoyment. The Delphi modernists list now includes Carson McCullers, Dos Passos, Camus and Katherine Mansfield. Gertrude Stein is ...
“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade Faber £20, 480 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and follow FT Weekend on Instagram and X ...