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Wild Swans author Jung Chang awarded CBE for services to literature
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe best-selling author whose memoir Wild Swans was banned in mainland China but sold millions of...
British Museum apologizes after using translator’s work in China exhibition without pay or...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and...
Professors weigh in on the Taylor Swift phenomenon in the classroom: 'She's the hook and hard sell'
TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn recent years, the traditional college course has experienced a significant cultural shift....
The best cities for book lovers in the British Isles
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoFrom Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist to Sally Rooney’s Normal People, the British Isles has been literary strongholds for centuries. Writers such as Sir...
AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature
The Conversation en Español via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh located in the The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq. Osama Shukir...
Anthony Horowitz says Bond ‘lives by a different moral code’ to one we have now
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAuthor Anthony Horowitz has said he is “perfectly happy to defend Bond”, adding that the fictional...
Kevin O'Neill, British comic artist and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen co-creator, dies at 69
Entertainment Weekly via Yahoo News· 2 years agoKevin O'Neill, the British comic artist who co-created The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with...
For centuries, owls were considered to bring bad luck in many cultures as well as in the US, but the...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTributes left at a memorial for Flaco the owl in Central Park in New York. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews...
David Murdock Column: On old movies ... one more time
The Gadsden Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFor reasons I’ll have to explain another time, I’ve been reading “old” books and watching “old”...
'Silver Nitrate': Silvia Moreno-Garcia mixes Nazi occultism, Mexican horror cinema in new novel
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoPurchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. Silvia...