Interview with Curtis Brown Literary Agent, Lily Kovacs
A Conversation with Lily Kovacs (literary agent over at our prize partner Curtis Brown) about the literary world today, indie publishing, how writers find agents, how agents find writers, the…
Vintage Treasures: The Silistra Quartet by Janet Morris
The Silistra Quartet began with Janet’s first novel, High Couch of Silistra, which appeared in paperback from Bantam Books in 1977 with a classic cover by Boris (above left). Although…
Left in the Dark
More Than a Week After Devastating Storms, Gary Residents Are Still Without Power
The Crying Game’s Legacy as Transgender Representation
The legacy of Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game has become inextricably entangled with a defining trope of AIDS-era mainstream queer representation: the revelation that exposes the gender identity of a…
I want to hide and to be seen
I suppose I see where we are right now like this: the media and political parties refuse to call racists, racist or bigots, bigots. They editorialise as if racists have…
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
It turns out that Taylor Farms, the agricultural company widely believed to be behind the cyclospora outbreak currently raging throughout the US, is also heavily involved in modern-day forced labor.…
Kamala Harris tells Urban League the Voting Rights Act won’t be revived ‘any time soon’
For former Vice President Kamala Harris, figuring out how to restore the hobbled Voting Rights Act (VRA) is not something that voters and lawmakers should be focused on right now. …
Super El Niño Drives an August Weather Shift as Fall and Winter Signals Strengthen
A powerful Super El Niño is showing rapid development across the tropical Pacific, with increasingly visible atmospheric impacts. The latest ocean analysis and forecast data show the event moving toward…
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
“we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.
Pixar’s Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit.
The purpose of California’s film tax credit is to encourage studios to create and retain production jobs in the state.