Fourteen authors in the New Directions stable have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, including this year and last. How does this small press pack such a punch?

“He views literacy as the foundation of liberal democracy; if the foundation crumbles, the edifice collapses. The shift away from print has stoked a broader crisis.”

“I write to find out what I think about something.”

Such realms of silence and suffering are where Anne Carson consistently resides.

Rowland Bagnall reviews Anne Carson’s “Wrong Norma.”

WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE ​​“This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organize thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organizing them. But because of ...

Celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Canadian author Anne Carson, for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that in playful dialogue with the classical tradition has cr…

Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne...

William Golding didn’t push back on any of the suggested revisions: you get the impression that he would have done...

A duo lost in the woods find their way home by recalling an elder’s teachings in this understated offering from Cree/Dene author...

The lives of several young trans women in Chicago tangle and interweave in these keenly observed short stories.

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The Bulgarian picture book When I Want to Be Silent by author Zornitsa Hristova and artist Kiril Zlatkov uses spare, poetic text (translated

The book, about a Toronto woman who leaves her family to live in the woods, is the latest must-read—50 years after it came out

The unsolved murder of a young girl in Argentina sends shockwaves through generations of a religious family.

Fady Joudah’s Exhibit G is among the first of its kind. The multimedia poetry collection—assembled in the diaspora, and yet, across form, content, and voice, never anywhere but Gaza—charts Palestin…

The book, about a Toronto woman who leaves her family to live in the woods, is the latest must-read—50 years after it came out

Hammond, author of Overwhelmed: Ways to Take the Pressure Off, explains the science of feeling overcommitted and what to do about it

I never expected horses to become a theme in my life. When I was a young girl, I didn’t see them as animals so much as a child’s bedroom aesthetic, something that other girls—not me— chose to decor…

Gruffalo Granny is the latest instalment of Julia Donaldson’s beloved children’s book about a knobbly kneed monster

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As she introduces the latest member of her Gruffalo family, Julia Donaldson talks about storytelling, loss and the worries that come with being Britain’s all-time bestselling author