The Sahitya Akademi awards are considered among the most prestigious literary accolades in the country, with good reason. But the awards, and many of the Akademi’s other activites, have continued in unchanged form for a long time. Perhaps some change

Five years ago, I packed my bags and moved to America from Australia. Since I moved here, I’ve gotten married and had two children. Child the Elder is 3 years old and Child the Younger is 9 months. Although

Melancolia (Melancholy) by Mircea Cărtărescu was published in French on January 14 at Noir sur Blanc publishing house, in the translation of Laure Hinckel.The work is due to appear in German at Paul Zsolnay, translated by Ernest Wichner, and in

In the essays my students write, I have begun to notice a common pattern. They are structured almost like Aesop’s fables. A moral seems necessary at the end—a kind of wrapping up, whichever way one chooses to look at it,

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Mandy Patinkin and Lena Dunham have joined German filmmaker Julia von Heinz’s next film, “Iron Box,” about a New York businesswoman who decides to take her aging father back to his native Poland, where she hopes to explore her Jewish

Author Te-Ping Chen was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing. Photo: Lucas Foglia Te-Ping Chen says that when she moved to Beijing in 2014 to work as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, it was helpful

WHEELING — The next Lunch With Books livestream program at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 2, presented by the Ohio County Public Library will kick off Black History Month with “Archiving Wheeling Presents — Part 3: Lesser Known African American Legends

CHICAGO - The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA), an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), announced 2021 winners of its Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature youth categories today at 8 a.m. Central during the ALA Youth Media Award announcements