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This short novel is well worth reading for its detailed and loving "insider's" picture of a people whose ancient way of life, which used to be called primitive by "outsiders," is slowly being being modernised and, according to the author, morally corrupted. The Chukchi people of northeastern...

I decided on a whim to go to Boston (USA not UK) for a few days - in November! Does anybody know the city to recommend things? There is a Degas exhibition at the museum. Good bookstores?

Knots – Nuruddin Farah It was interest in a fictional picture of life in the war-ravaged, ungoverned city of Mogadishu (Mogadiscio here) that drew me to this novel; I find, however, that there is not only no glimpse of life, fictional or real, among the ruins, but there is hardly any novel here...

Where is everyone? I've never seen such a scarcity of posts as in the last five or six days. Even Eric has disappeared! Congratulations if you're working too hard at real jobs to blog.

A new rival to the Man Booker. Excellence not compromised by "readability" apparently. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15265212

Petina Gappah is an international trade lawyer, of all things, but is also a very good short story writer. Her collection, An Elegy for Easterly is (so far, a few stories in) admirably low key, yet moving and full of interesting looks into Zimbabwean life. I like her work a lot.

Does anybody know the source of this phrase? Or something like it, "Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Holy Rollers(etc.) and International Jewel Thieves." I had thought it was D.H. Lawrence but I can't find it anywhere. Anybody have any quotations that need identifying? This is...

Where is the cursor in new threads box? It's like walking in a thick fog. And you can't go back except by erasing what you've done.

I just discovered this writer in a collection of stories called "In Corner B." Apparently very famous and important in South Africa and in France, at least, he is compared to Nelson Mandela as a leader of the anti-apartheid movement. His voice is astonishingly gentle, considering the violence...

I can't send quick replies because of "database error," whatever that is. Only advanced box works. A search led to a dbe, as well.

I've always wanted to scoop one of these: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13890900

I've always wanted to scoop one of these: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13890900

Uniko Kimmo Pohjonen (Artist, Composer), Kronos Quartet (Artist), Samuli Kosminen (Artist, Composer) | Format: Audio CD Does anyone know of this Finnish composer? Liam?I recommend this work to anyone who listens for emotion in new "serious" or "classical" music (classifying genres...

Literature in music is all very well - harrumph! - but what about music in literature? I haven't found a thread for this so I'll start one. It goes something like this . . . Tolstoy's novella, The Kreutzer Sonata, in which Beethoven's sexy work leads to an adulterous affair.

look up the word "atmosphere" in a dictionary.

Sad news of death of Beryl Bainbridge, a favourite writer of mine, a unique talent. BBC News - Dame Beryl Bainbridge dies at 75

I don't know if this kind of novel has been classified as a literary genre but if it hasn't, I think it should be. It's a kind of literary suspense thriller in which the reader is kept guessing as to what tragic event happened years or generations ago in a family that causes so much trouble in...

A subject for a new thread? How is your life affected by not being aware of certain PCRs? This seemed a funny question at first but, of course, it is interesting from a sociological or communication studies POV. I'm not completely fluent in web chat abbreviations: wrt, imho, etc. and have...

No arguments. Since nobody seems to want to discuss poetry, let this be a place for individual offerings of one poem, closely analysed, at a time. It's my thread and I'll cry if I want to.:)

Lives of writers or other literary types.