Category: Literature
MashReads Podcast: If you read one book this year, it should be ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ by George Saunders
Image: MJ Franklin/ Mashable George Saunders has a rule for art: “If you do it right, it’s almost like this beautiful prism, and no matter what the time is, you can shine a light through it and it will make some sense.” It’s an apt description and an excellent way to describe Saunders’ newest book […]
MashRead Podcast: ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ is the classic novel that should be on every reading list
Image: Mashable Composite, HarperCollins Sometimes the best way to understand the present is to look at the past. Or at least that’s true with Zora Neale Hurston’s classic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The book was written 80 years ago, but the commentary it makes on race and feminism feels as fresh and contemporary […]
Watch Hulu’s Super Bowl spot for original series The Handmaids Tale
Hulu just released a trailer for its adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a science fiction tale in which the U.S. Government has been toppled by a theocratic authoritarian dictatorship and women suffer a horrible revocation of rights. So yeah it’s a little too on the nose right now. Maybe the hope is that […]
Baileys Prize: Why do book awards keep changing their name? – BBC News
Image copyright PA Image caption Lisa McInerney won the 2016 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for The Glorious Heresies It’s all change in the world of literary prizes. This year will be the last Women’s Prize for Fiction has the word Baileys attached to it. The liqueur company, owned by Diageo, said it had “regretfully […]
Paul Beatty: For me, Trumps America has always existed
Booker prize winner says presidents rise is not a shock and race relations have improved very little, even under Obama. When Donald Trump was being inaugurated, Paul Beatty was lying in bed with his wife, groggy with medication halfway around the world, in Jaipur, India. His book, The Sellout, a sarcastic, complex novel on race […]