BooksPeter Carey’s new novel grapples with Australia’s legacy of racism“A Long Way from Home” delves into the crimes that built a continent, and how to move forward: “Guilt is such a wrong word. The useful word is, I think, responsibility.”
BooksDo women writers have ‘literary cooties’?A remarkable study of the kinds of books that win big prizes reveals this: Don’t write about women. Unless, that is, you’re a man.
SocietyKazuo Ishiguro goes back in timeIshiguro’s long-awaited novel explores new terrain—and not just because of the ogres
BooksAuthor quits Booker Prize adviser role to protest expansionOne author involved with the Man Booker Prize has already quit in protest after the news that the U.K. literary award is being...
MoviesA new life for PiAng Lee recreates the story of a shipwreck, a boy and a tiger in three dimensions
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