Fiction

• All Her Lives è solo la quinta raccolta di racconti a vincere il prestigioso premio da 65.000 NZ$ in 58 anni • La scrittrice esordiente Ingrid Horrocks ha vinto il premio letterario più ricco della Nuova Zelanda per la sua prima raccolta di racconti, All Her Lives. • La poetessa, saggista e memoirista residente a Wellington ha vinto il prestigioso Jann Medlicott Acorn prize for fiction da 65.000 NZ$ (53.000 A$, 28.500 £) durante gli Ockham New Zealand book awards 2026 mercoledì sera. Il libro segue nove donne attraverso nove diverse fasi della vita e generazioni, mentre affrontano temi come la politica, il genere e la maternità. Continua a leggere...

New PEN America report analysed 3,743 unique titles removed from libraries and classrooms and found books about activism and social movements were targetedA new report has found that the number of banned non-fiction books doubled during the 2024-2025 school year in the US.PEN America analysed the 3,743 unique titles removed from school libraries and classrooms in the July to June period and found that over 1,100 or 29% were non-fiction, more than double the year prior. Continue reading...

The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogueIt was perhaps inevitable that a braggadocious Christian nationalist defense secretary elevated from his role as a weekend Fox News television host would pluck a fake Bible verse from a violent Hollywood blockbuster and present it at a Pentagon prayer session to rally the troops for the “holy war” in Iran.Certainly among a glut of stories swirling around Pete Hegseth this week, including articles of impeachment brought against him by a group of ambitious Democratic lawmakers, the bizarre allegation that the Bible-thumping Hegseth was passing off a fire-and-brimstone script by Quentin Tarantino, an Oscar-winning director, as the word of the Lord was far too compelling to ignore. Continue reading...