Books & Reviews
Sunday, 15 April 2012
IT MAY lack wizards and witches, but JK Rowling and her publisher are hoping her first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, will have the magic touch. The book's title was announced last Thursday by Little, Brown & Co along with a brief plot...
OFTEN described as the country's best male writer on the female psyche, Bi Feiyu, 46, does not see himself worthy of the accolade."I wouldn't say I've been writing about women. Rather, I've been writing about humans," he told a roomful of...
Sunday, 8 April 2012
GERMAN Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass labelled Israel a threat to "already fragile world peace" in a poem published on Wednesday that drew sharp rebukes at home and from Israel. In the poem titled What must be said, published...
ONE in five American adults read an electronic book in the last year, as gift-giving sped the shift away from the printed page, a Pew Research Centre survey showed on on Wednesday.!In a sweeping survey of e-books' impact on reading habits, the Pew...
Sunday, 1 April 2012
ERNEST Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn't part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that became publicly available on Wednesday in a collection of the author's papers at the Kennedy presidential library. In a letter...
CHINA in the Next 30 Years is a new collection of 17 essays published in October 2011 on the future of China, of which eight authors are foreigners. This is one of the few books published simultaneously in Chinese and English. Reading the book in...
Sunday, 18 March 2012
IT'S quite moving to see soldiers return from war loathing the thing, as is often the case. Most would gladly hear that there'll never be another one, but there always is another, and among the combatants slaughtered in its course will be more...
SHE has been writing for 28 years in her native South Korea, but Kyung-sook Shin said she feels like a newcomer again after becoming the first woman to win Asia's top literary prize.The South Korean author beat a strong field to win the 2011 Man...
Sunday, 11 March 2012
BOTH male and female journalists face grave dangers working in conflict zones, but for women, working conditions are often more complex, according to a new book.No Woman's Land: On the Frontlines with Female Reporters, published by the International...
Sunday, 4 March 2012
ONE of the most definitive novels about 9/11 becomes one of the years most cathartic cinematic experiences as Warner Bros. brings to the screen Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.In 2005, novelist Jonathan...
WRITER Guo Jingming's latest book Tiny Times 3.0 has sold 1.4 million copies in the two months since its release last December. It is a new height in the writers career: Nearly every one of his eight books have been annual best sellers.Guo, 29, told...
Sunday, 26 February 2012
ADULT fans of J K Rowling can rejoice: She has a new novel coming, for grown-ups. The kids will have to wait and see. The author of the mega-selling Harry Potter series has an agreement with Little, Brown in the United States and Britain to...
IT WAS on the 15th day of the Egyptian revolution that I first encountered Ahdaf Soueif in Tahrir Square. She wore big round sunglasses that swallowed her face, and a dark scarf covered her head and fell over her shoulders. It would have been easy...
Sunday, 19 February 2012
ARGUABLY one of China's most international writers, Hong Ying (pic) published her third novel based on her life, The Little Girl, at the end of last year, after 1997's Daughter of the River and its 2009 sequel Good Children of the Flowers.Resembling...
IT'S easy to forget that the world wide web as we know it today evolved from an early attempt to put books on the internet. When Tim Berners-Lee envisaged what would become the world wide web, it was with the idea of making academic papers and other...
Sunday, 12 February 2012
HONG Kong has for many years been short of a reference work about the men and women who have shaped the cosmopolitan city.Since 2004, a project involving about 90 contributors academics, journalists and other experts has finally produced...
IN HER acknowledgments to The Obamas, her account of the first couple's first three years in the White House, journalist Jodi Kantor thanks her New York Times editor for "a four-year conversation about ambition, power, gender and public life...
Sunday, 5 February 2012
EXTREMIST political conspiracies such as "birthers" and "truthers" may be a dominant theme of post-9/11 America, but in a new book by Arthur Goldwag, he argues that modern conservative groups may be a product of history repeating itself.!In...
THESE women may not have an oven, refrigerator, stove, knife, or even the ability to boil water, but they do have plenty of time on their hands. Decades, in fact. And that, combined with a few (admittedly peculiar) ingredients and a desire to...
Sunday, 29 January 2012
HAVE we truly achieved economic diversification for our beloved country? A book entitled Brunei Darussalam Challenges for Economic Diversification written by Pg Dr Hj Mohd Yakub Pg Hj Othman is one such book that makes an attempt to answer...
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