10 New Books to Look Forward to in February 2023: In popular culture, February is the month of love. Therefore, it is also the month of the most extravagant stories, from gothic mysteries and mythological quests to contemporary snides in relationships and in-depth research insights into popular culture. This listicle of the top 10 new…
5 Feel-Good Books to Read Like Heartstopper: Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series is one of the most delectable desserts in the form of a graphic novel. It is in equal portions funny and charming and, like a good brownie, radiates a soft, warm glow when you finish reading each volume. It is the story of Charlie…
At Night All Blood is Black – Originally published: 16 August 2018 About the Author David Diop is the head of the Department of the Arts, Languages, and Literature at the University of Pau in southwest France. His area of specialization as an academic includes French and Francophone African literature from the 18th century. His research…
10 New Book Releases in January 2023 to Look Forward To: We’d like to begin this blog by wishing our readers more books and reading time in this brand-new year. This year, like every year, we promise to go skinny dipping in the literary works of our favorite authors and pile up unread books on…
10 Most Interesting Book-to-Screen Movie Adaptations from 2022: The year 2022 saw a plethora of books being made into films, from the more popular adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile (1937) and Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818) to the lesser-known short story by Joe Hill called The Black Phone. These adaptations have once again…
Shrilal Shukla’s book, The Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance, is an English-language collection of 25 short prose pieces written to read like a mirror image of North Indian society. These pieces have been translated into English by Matt Reeck for Penguin Random House, India. Fifty Years of Ignorance, spanning over 427 pages, is a…