Literature News Monitoring

Book Review: Love, An Index

After the man she loves goes missing while hiking a volcano in Japan, Rebecca Lindenberg is left alone and still loving him. When Lindenberg’s relationship with poet Craig Arnold ended in 2009, her sorrow and joy became a means of navigating the landscape …

Book review: Madeleine Thien’s The Book Of Records an exquisitely interlaced time-travel novel

BOOK REVIEW: Heart Lamp (Selected Stories)

By: Majid Maqbool Indian writer, activist and lawyer Banu Mushtaq’s short story collection Heart Lamp brings together 12 selected stories that explore the everyday lives and struggles of women and girls in the Muslim communities of southern India, …

Book review: Yoko Tawada’s surrealist The Naked Eye tells of emigre experience via Catherine Deneuve

Book Review | ‘Cheesecake: A Novel’ by Mark Kurlansky

BOOK REVIEW: OTA CAMP, Filipinos in Hawai’i Fight Eviction

by Rose Cruz Churma The original Ota Camp, based on a 1960s map, was located near St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Waipahu. By 1972, there were a total of 131 individuals who lived in Ota Camp, 11 of them were single, elderly men who were former plantation …

Book Review: Capers and Switcheroos

Capers and Switcheroos by Chip Cater Genre: Short Story Collection ISBN: 9798891326552 Print Length: 98 pages Publisher: Atmosphere Press Reviewed by Eric Mayrhofer Memories don’t play out like feature-length movies. They happen in flashes, fits, and …

Book Review: ‘I Don’t Swim’ by Helen Miller

It takes a fair amount of finesse to get my teenage daughter to accompany me to a book reading at Prairie Lights. And by finesse, I mean free coffee. She’s in one of those adolescent literary moments where reading YA romance sounds a lot more fun than a …

Why Not Her? A Manifesto for Culture Change by Linda Coogan Byrne – Book Review

Why Not Her? A Manifesto for Culture Change by Linda Coogan Byrne – Book Review Published April 2025 by: Why Not Her? Publishing “Why Not Her? A Manifesto for Culture Change” by Linda Coogan Byrne is a critical examination that articulates the persistent …

Publishing Poetry Today and Tomorrow, Pt. II: Temples of What's to Come

Well, there seem to be some misconceptions. There seem to, there seem... I don’t think you understand. There seem... seemingly a misconception here. Amazon or an alternative? We either lean into our structural dependencies or lean away, but we cannot …

A poem in a photo: Kim Fahner invites Sudburians to AGS exhibit

Former Greater Sudbury poet laureate has exhibit of photography on display at Pinchman’s until July 29 When Sudbury poet and author Kim Fahner is out in nature, what she sees are poems. She often grabs her phone to capture the beauty of the moment, and …

The Spanish literature of New York City

“The city disconcerts me enormously. It shifts from an enormous lyricism of raw material to a harshness of raw material. I don’t know why I think of the combustion engine. You know, that engine works thanks to a chain of small successive bursts… a string …

Journey through Sindhi literature

In my previous column (‘Who will guard the universities’, June 1), I highlighted the concerns of academics and intellectuals about the declining academic freedom at the institutes of higher education, especially in Sindh. But that does not mean all is not …

Poem Of The Week: Dark Peak, February By Alison Binney

Steve Whitaker Features Writer @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social 12:00 AM 7th June 2025 arts Dark Peak, February stone walls lean green-furred faces into horizontal hail snowdrops nod huddled heads at mute daffodil spears starlings witter and wheel tumbling to …

Author Jules Verne 'inspired' by Wirral locations in three of his novels

The International Review of Science Fiction's 2025 summer edition says that 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth', 'The Mysterious Island', and 'The Floating Island' were all based on around 60 locations in Wirral. This includes …

These Written Novels Would Make For An Amazing Anime Series

Anime has a vibrant history of breathing new life into written stories, transforming the pages of manga and light novels into visually stunning, emotionally charged experiences. But there’s a vast world of literature, especially in the realm of fantasy and …

Ontario poets gather in Stratford for major poetry event Saturday

The annual Summertime Poetry Soiree has become a staple event for The Ontario Poetry Society (TOPS), and this year's event will be held at the Stratford Perth Museum.  Stratford’s Poet Laureate, David Stones, will be among the featured poets at the …

aja monet Returns to Brooklyn and Debuts New Poetry Collection, ‘Florida Water’

If poets are preachers, aja monet’s reading for her upcoming Florida Water was church. It was a packed house at Isola Brooklyn in Williamsburg as Dr. Mahogany Browne took to the stage to welcome the crowd, introduce the Grammy-nominated poet, and remind …

Seven Takeaways from New Literature Review on Ultrasound and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Does washout timing play a significant role in differentiating between hepatoceullar carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC)? Can contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)-guided biopsies have an impact for liver lesions that elude …