Gesa Stedman takes a look at the main trends of the key pandemic years when shops were closed, readers turned to fiction again, festivals went online and bookfairs were cancelled. Read more
The Four Nations of the UK – How the Literary Field Works Beyond London
Gesa Stedman explores the complex connections and the colonial legacies which characterise Read more
Mixed Book News: Summer, Autumn, Winter
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
Caution. Reading in Progress! Art
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
Books News April – May – June
Prizes, bibliodiversity, women writers, green issues, freedom of speech – Read more
Happy in Berlin? English and British Writers and the Berlin Myth
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
Christmas in April – Post Kultur Parcels
Gesa Stedman introduces Post Kultur Read more
Book News February – March 2021
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
Book News January 2021
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
Book News – What Happened in November and December 2020
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
