Gesa Stedman looks at recent and not quite so recent prize winners, Frankfurt book fair debates, special issues on disability and LGTBQI+ respectively, published by The Bookseller, and wonders where climate change has disappeared to – again. Read more
Not even the pandemic could stop art being a sought-after topic on the book market, as art novels, colouring books, art history publications or lavish coffee table books came up for publication in the past year or two. Gesa Stedman takes an interested, if critical look at recent Read more
Prizes, bibliodiversity, women writers, green issues, freedom of speech – Read more
Musa Okwonga, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Kate McNaughton, Rory McLean – the list can be continued easily. All these writers grew up in Britain, or have close ties with the UK, but they live or have lived in Berlin Read more
Gesa Stedman introduces Post Kultur Read more
Gesa Stedman rounds up the most recent news – for once, with a German focus. The German literary field has been rocked by two events which have generated an unprecedented amount of news and debates in newspapers and social media. This is going to be an unusual post, as […] Read more
Gesa Stedman listens to the radio, worries about giving up air and review space in favour of infotainment, questions the relation between politics and aesthetics, and once again looks at bookselling during the pandemic. Read more
Gesa Stedman rounds up the latest news from the literary field, including prizes, bookselling during the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and the climate crisis. Read more
Gesa Stedman suffered from acute reader’s rage, when she explored three female authors promoted by The Bookseller in recent months. Read more
Gesa Stedman goes on a round-trip and gives you the latest on sales figures, endemic racism in the literary field, bookselling during a pandemic, and more. The next Book News will be published after the summer break. Read more
