Ranging across continents and genres, the six stories in contention for 2023’s award have been praised for ‘distinctiveness and depth of feeling’ The shortlist for this year’s 4thWrite prize, open to unpublished writers of colour in the...
A statement cited increased costs and removal of UK state funding as the magazine, which featured writers including Paul Murray, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Sally Rooney, is to consider its future Literary magazine the White Review will not...
The new book by Adam Nagourney offers an in-depth look at how a newspaper navigated reporting challenges, financial crises and the transition to the digital era.
“Fear Is Just a Word,” by the New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed, tells the story of a woman determined to avenge her daughter’s death at the hands of a drug cartel.
A homeless man journeys from Cambridge to the coast in the Leicester writer’s fresh, funny and serious verse narrative Enter the Water tempts you to wade straight in. And it will take only the briefest of dips, a toe in the water, before...
The Dylan scholar won’t accept any criticism of his idol unless he himself is wielding the sword in his latest exhaustive attempt to understand the ultimate unreliable narrator Who will get to write the last word on Bob Dylan? A number...
Wacom is a company heavily invested in making products for professional artists; that is their core business. They have different verticals, such as WACOM-enabled displays for digital paper products with E INK screens. They have never...
Xiaomi released its first InkPalm of 2023, the InkPalm 5 Mini Pro. This device has a faster processor, 64GB of internal storage and full English support compared to the regular InkPalm Mini 5 that came out a few years ago. The colour...
Amazon announced they are winding down support for Send to Kindle for the MOBI, AZW and PRC ebook formats on November 1st, 2023. The three ebook formats will cease functioning: Send to Kindle for email, Send to Kindle for Android/iOS and...
In her memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” the famously private “Scandal” star opens up about the family secret that made her question whether she was playing the lead role in her own life.
Amazon has started sending out emails to customers with a “Final Reminder” about how their Send to Kindle service will no longer support MOBI file formats (.AZW, .MOBI, .PRC) starting later this year. At first Amazon said...
Amazon, like most of the biggies in the business is forced to sit up and re-think their strategies post the advent of chatGPT. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, while acknowledging the immense potential of generative AI applications like chatGPT...
The iReader autumn flagship new product launch event is scheduled to be held soon – September 26, to be precise – and the company has already let out hints there is a new e-reader in the offing. Of course, the company is not...
A forensic holding to account of Rupert Murdoch and the power of Fox News is desperately needed, but this isn’t it Several years ago, I paid a friend to read a boring book about British television so I could pretend to my Channel 4...
Here are a few stories to read this morning. The Onyx Boox Palma is a smartphones-sized ereader retailing for $280. If people in other professions talked about their work like poets do, this is what it would sound like. In response to...
Our education system needs a radical rethink for the digital age What are some of the things humans can do that other animals can’t? Humans can count, humans can read, humans can reason. These advanced abilities are often attributed to...
Kerry Washingon discusses her memoir, 'Thicker Than Water,' and the family secret revelation that taught Olivia Pope's portrayer to be her own protagonist.
The metropolitan contempt for a female working-class writer from provincial Northamptonshire gets a zinging satirical response Upon her P lay being returned to her , stained with C laret Welcome, dear Wanderer, once more! Thrice welcome...
Cozying up to get going with the book you have been reading for a while now on your Kobo e-reader, only to find you have been locked out of the same. Nothing can be more frustrating than this. The usual error message shows can be like...
Dear Amy: I brought a bottle of wine and handed it to the hostess. I was informed that there would be no alcohol being served. The hosts did have water and soft drinks. Should I have asked for my wine back?If they don't drink alcohol,...
Bigme is a company that has a strong track record of making digital paper-type products, with a strong emphasis on AI and note-taking. The one thing missing from their portfolio is a dedicated ebook reader. The company has just unveiled...
I haven’t actually read very much of the book I had decided to read for Spinster September – a brilliant brainchild of Nora aka pear.jelly – but one of the other books I was reading also qualifies. Ethel Wilson was
The Substack pundit Fredrik deBoer and the political scientist Yascha Mounk feel that liberal ideologues and “woke” pretenders have marred American life.
TCL has another interesting tablet device to offer in the form of the NxtPaper 12 Pro. Interesting because the company isn’t claiming it to be a color e-paper device this time, much as they did with the NxtPaper 11. That said, there is...
Pilot initially teased the Dr.Grip WACOM/EMR stylus at a trade show in Japan a few years ago. The stylus looked like it was a concept at the time and never got a first release date until now. The Dr.Grip is finally available to be...
Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more. I don’t typically post two “Revue of Reviewers” collections in such close succession , but the abundance...
Only two brands have developed a series of primary and secondary E INK displays for your computer, Dasung and Onyx Boox. Dasung has been focused on its product line for a long time, releasing close to 7 different monitors over the years;...
A towering figure of American journalism, Tom Wolfe is profiled in a documentary that dutifully touches on the greatest hits, including 'The Right Stuff.'
The landmark Washington National Cathedral unveiled new stained-glass windows Saturday with a theme of racial justice, filling the space that had once held four windows honoring Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Just over a month ago, we brought you news about five books shortlisted for the 2023 Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction, which celebrates “outstanding crime and thriller storytelling of those who are from, or whose work celebrates, the...
Well, folks, if we’re talking parking lot views, it appears that we have hit the motherlode. This is an extremely impressive collection of loitering vehicles. I think it may even be a record, and in 15 years of touring, that’s saying...
The mystery-genre history blog Ontos features a wonderful, but wildly premature article announcing the decline and fall of the fictional sleuth— in 1905! Originally published in an English magazine called The Academy , it was later...
The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car. In his classic study Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974), the former metalworker and Marxist theorist Harry Braverman wrote that “the term...
I would say my target reader is anyone with an interest in literary fiction, coming-of-age and psychological works, as well as anyone with an interest in the trauma of childhood, addiction, and the enlightenment of recovery. The novel...