Romantic movies have been a cornerstone of cinema ever since the silent era. Once films transitioned to sound, that did not ...

I first read “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry” in 2019, and then I reread it with my book club in 2021. Both times I found the ...

Germany is set to take centre stage at the 48th International Kolkata Book Fair, running from January ... celebrating the rich literary and cultural exchange between Germany and India.

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

The Good Literary Agency (TGLA ... they had taken the "heartbreaking" decision to close the agency. All book contracts and all future earnings will revert to their authors and TGLA said it ...

But while the society ... for Best Overall Book with her novel The Mermaid of Black Conch. Roffey told me how thrilled she had been to be invited as “an outsider in UK literary circles ...

The 172nd Akutagawa literary prize was awarded Wednesday to authors Jose Ando and Yui Suzuki, while Shin Iyohara took home the Naoki Prize. The Akutagawa Prize, given to up-and-coming writers for ...

Guernsey and Jersey's rugby clubs will come together for the first time to form a joint Channel Island team in May. Players from Guernsey Raiders and Jersey RFC will play Sweden's national team in ...

All is not well in the Royal Society of Literature. It now transpires that the bosses of the prestigious 200-year-old organisation have resigned after a rather tumultuous year – and ahead of an AGM ...

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The Royal Society of Literature has been flung into chaos after ... it has now become 'so diluted by younger writers with few books to their name that it is no longer the kind of distinction ...