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
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
Hannah Pardey, lecturer and researcher at Leibniz-Universität Hanover, is an expert on the digital aspects of the contemporary literary field. She explores in what way digitalisation enables or hinders literary diversity and takes a close look at the intersection of AI, emotion, and diversity. Read more
The war that Russia leads against Ukraine continues to horrify me as do the whole discussion about military spending and armament; and I’ve not been able to write anything helpful or insightful about this topic. This short blog won’t be either. My thoughts and solidarity are with the people who […] Read more
Gesa Stedman explores the complex connections and the colonial legacies which characterise Read more
Have a nice break and see you on the other side! P.S.: I really enjoyed these bookish ornaments by @lacyloveslit and am sharing the picture and link here (with Lacy’s kind permission) to spread the joy 😉 Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an Ein Beitrag geteilt von Lacy […] Read more
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
Today, I have the great honour to join the blog tour for Neil Bartlett’s Address Book, published on 4 November by the fabulous indie publisher Inkandescent, with this review. In Address Book, we experience seven different stories set in different times and places, including a flat in Clerkenwell in 1891 […] Read more
Please join us for an online reading with the Manchester-based writer Okechukwu Nzelu! Monday, 29 November 2021 17h Berlin time, 4pm UK time on zoom (registration details below) His debut novel, The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney (Dialogue Books), won a Betty Trask Award. It was also shortlisted for the […] 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