Since the appearance of his first book The Floating Opera in 1956 and the landmark works that followed, such as The Sot-Weed Factor in 1960 and Chimera , which won the National Book Award in 1973, John Barth has established himself as one of the foremost

I’ve asked our friends at the Claremont Review of Books (subscribe here — please) to extend our preview of the new (winter) to a fourth day with one more piece, and they have obliged. The magazine of course takes an interest in the culture, featuring out

What's generally less addressed is the way we leave -- the room, the building, our lives. That makes G

Book, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Over in the Poetry Library there’s a book launch for St Brigid’s Day with Carcanet poets Moya Cannon, Sasha Dugdale and Olivia McCannon, introduced by David Constantine (8pm, free). Thursday: Gemma

That's what filmmaker Sam Mayfield did, for a film she's working on about last year's protests in Madison, Wis. In a blog post on January 13, she wrote: Since the Story Exchange launch in April 2011, LPM has successfully funded four out of six news stori

Burns Lake residents are collectively holding their breath and preparing for hardship after a devastating mill fire last weekend destroyed the town’s biggest employer. “It’s the hardest time I’ve seen in the 41 years I’ve lived here,” says retired teache