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Live webchat: Maya Jasanoff

Award winning historian Maya Jasanoff will be here from 1pm Wednesday 30 May. Post your questions nowThis month, A Room for London plays host to author and historian Maya Jasanoff. For four days each...

11 h ago

Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading

Our review list and your chance to tell us what youd like us to cover on the siteA very warm welcome to this weeks TLS. I hope the weather has been as nice with as it has been in central London.The p...

17 h ago

Would we have survived without the Guardian first book award?

Down the Rabbit Hole, chosen by readers for the 2011 First Book Award shortlist, was also a first for its publisher. One year on, And Other Stories founder Stefan Tobler describes the awards tremendo...

17 h ago

Do literary spoilers matter?

US critic Stanley Fish has aroused anger by letting slip later parts of Suzanne Collins Hunger Games trilogy. Is this just fuss over nothing?Stanley Fish is in trouble. He wrote a piece for the New Y...

1 day ago

PD James: you ask the questions

The doyenne of crime writers has agreed to put herself in the dock. So nows your chance to find out everything you wanted to know about the creator of Commander Adam DalglieshPD James is the doyenne ...

4 days ago

Twitter is a clunky way of delivering fiction

Jennifer Egans Black Box is being published in 140-character bursts over 10 days. If, unlike me, youre staying up till 1am to read it, please let me know what you thinkProof, if proof were needed, th...

4 days ago

Reader reviews roundup

In this weeks roundup, we concentrate on the pick of the reviews of debut novels nominated for the Guardian First Book AwardThis week, a slight left-turn. On the blog last Friday, Claire Armitstead o...

4 days ago

Twitter celebrates Towel Day

These froods really know where their towels are ...Happy Towel Day! #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #douglasadams #towelday twitter.com/HanRobinson92/…&md ash; Hannah Robinson (@HanRobinson92) May 25, 20...

4 days ago

Open thread: share your favourite Douglas Adams lines on Towel Day

Whats your favourite line from The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy? Celebrate Towel Day 2012 here"A towel ... is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." A...

4 days ago

Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished?

Hesperus Press are asking the public to nominate a novel for republication, with the winners pitch used as an introduction. Post your suggestions belowHesperus Press is a small independent publisher,...

5 days ago

The new Penguin English Library is a far cry from its 1963 version

A fair few genre novels, no non-fiction at all, and the mysterious disappearance of the previous No 4 make the new Penguin library a radical updateThe literary canon, supposedly, is a monolithic enti...

5 days ago 1 person likes this

Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading

The books were reviewing this week, what you are reading and roundup of the best comments on the books siteHello all. Heres a roundup of some of the comments on last weeks blog.kiwirebecca:Im just up...

6 days ago

Gay superheroes: Holy cow! Why is everyone in a hurry to out Batman?

As comic book rivals go to battle over gay superhero plots, its Batmans sexual orientation that has tabloids in a spinGay is apparently the new black for comics superheroes as rival publishers Marvel...

6 days ago 1 person likes this

Keep Public Lending Rights excellent office in Stockton-on-Tees

Anne Fine, Ian Rankin, Monica Ali and Andrew Motion join campaign to save exemplary and hard-working staff in an area where unemployment has topped 11.5 percent. Allan Glen checks their progressAutho...

6 days ago

Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels

A young financier taking a drunken tumble might have been an easy target, but this gentle poem has no interest in blame gamesThis weeks poem, City Boy, is by Peter Daniels and appears in his recently...

22 may 12

Orange is not the only fruit: why book prizes, not sponsors, matter to writers

Oranges decision to withdraw its sponsorship of the womens prize for fiction is not the end of the world. What matters is not what the prize is called, but what it representsWaiting with the five oth...

22 may 12

Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review?

Academics have charted reviews on social media sites and broadsheet books desks, and ranked their impact on novel sales. The results make for interesting readingLast weeks paper from the Harvard Busi...

22 may 12

Little Edale punches above its weight in the worlds of music and books

Singing, writing and all those walkers marching off up Grindsbrook Clough. Maybe the hamlet will produce a ballet next. Or a mural. Or an epic filmSmall but beautiful Edale in the Peak District is ma...

22 may 12

Guardian first book award 2012: hunt for the 10th title

Do you know of a brilliant literary debut? As the deadline looms for entries to this years first book award, were launching the search for the 10th title for the longlistTheres just a week left for p...

21 may 12

Waterstones kindle a deal for destruction with Amazon

Waterstones promise to make ebooks dramatically better by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle?Monday morning and already its the end of the world. Instead of...

21 may 12

Reader reviews roundup

An elegant review of Sarah Halls The Beautiful Indifference, and differing opinions on a Hebridean murder mystery and Jack Kerouacs On the RoadFirst up this week, ElizabethBaines really elegant and c...

18 may 12

Wanted: your flash critique

Earlier this week we celebrated National Flash Fiction day by asking for our readers flash novels. Now were looking for your flash criticismFor those who were too deeply engrossed in an old-fashioned...

18 may 12

Poster poems: May

Traditionally a season of poles and ribbons, May can be merry and romantic, or the month when love that smiled in April turns false. We invite you, garlanded or otherwise, to post your poemsWell, her...

18 may 12

Dickens, Browning and Lear: whats in a reputation?

The bicentenaries of three great Victorian writers underline the capricious nature of literary afterlivesWhat are the qualities that make a writer endure and flourish? Its an intriguing question whos...

17 may 12

Reading Group webchat: Paul Hendrickson

The author of Hemingways Boat, will be online Friday 18 May from 1pm. Post now for a chance to grill him on this months Reading Group idea of Ernest Hemingway as a macho writerOn Friday 18 May at 1pm...

16 may 12

Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading

Stieg Larssons Expo Files and the novels Gone Girl and HHhH are among the books were reviewing this week. What you are reading, today?Last weeks thread included excited talk about Bring Up the Bodies...

15 may 12

Have we fallen out of love with John Updike?

Three years after John Updikes death, his reputation appears to be on the wane. But who else can match his deftness and grace?Happy news from across the water. 117 Philadelphia Ave, Shillington, chil...

15 may 12

Happy Birthday, A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgesss diabolical tale of juvenile ultraviolence is 50. Five decades on, the novel holds a lofty position as one of pop cultures most influential and enduring pieces of literatureFifty year...

14 may 12

Why are writers no longer influenced by the classics?

Modern authors are far more stylistically influenced by their contemporaries than by writers from the 18th and 19th centuries, according to word-frequency study of classic literatureHarold Bloom famo...

14 may 12

Reader reviews roundup

Opinions is divided, but this week Can Themba and Charles Dickens join Suzanne Collins on the ever-growing to-read pileOpinionsLtd is in two minds about Penguins collected Can Themba, Requiem for Sop...

11 may 12

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