N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winner and giant of Native American literature, dead at 89 ( apnews.com )
Transfer Orbit | My most anticipated books of 2024 ( transfer-orbit.ghost.io )
A Metaphysical Memoir of Heroin ( www.thenation.com )
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The 25 science fiction and fantasy books we’re excited for in 2024 ( www.polygon.com )
the now-finalized Alyaza read list of 2023
newest to oldest...
What was your favorite read of 2023?
Any format counts (audiobook, physical book, ebook, graphic novel, article, essay, etc).
Recent finishes & Mini-Reviews
Just finished reading something and want to share some thoughts, but don’t want to start a brand new thread? Feel free to post your mini-reviews here!...
Your Sci-Fi suggestions
I haven’t had any luck in finding sci-fi books recently. I’m looking for a longer story that takes its time to establish the world/universe and the characters living in it. I like the idea of exploring space or futuristic cities/landscapes and being on a journey together with the protagonist. The story doesn’t have to have...
TOORMINA VIDEO - An autobiographical comic by Pat Grant ( www.patgrantart.com )
4 must-read books from east Africa in 2023: from Tanzanian masters to Ugandan queens ( theconversation.com )
The 38 Best Books We Read in 2023 ( lithub.com )
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2023 ( lithub.com )
Zola understood our lust for shopping ( unherd.com )
'It’s totally unhinged’: is the book world turning against Goodreads? ( www.theguardian.com )
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What are you reading?
Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?...
Deleuze on Palestine: "The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat" and "Stones" ( www.youtube.com )
Two of Deleuze’s essays read by Acid Horizon....
Introduction to Theory of Literature ( www.youtube.com )
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/4720329...
NPR's Books We Love for 2023 ( www.npr.org )
Stupid question– is Blood Meridian meant to be comedic at times?
…Because I only just read the first chapter, and I know it’s gonna throw me for a loop, but come on. This whole sequence of events feels like a parody of Westerns– Specifically the “everyone in a bar gets into a fight” trope. I feel like it’s playing out like a Three Stooges sketch....
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev: Portrait of a self-proclaimed Nihilist
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (Richard Freeborn translation) is an interesting character study of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist in the backdrop of the ideological differences between the “fathers” and “sons”. The “fathers” and “sons” in the title refer to the two different generations of the liberals and the...
Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition opens at the British Library soon, along with events with Neil Gaiman, and many more ( downthetubes.net )
Not only literature, but this still seemed like the best community for it....
Latinx authors are renowned in sci-fi and fantasy. Why aren’t more of their books being published? ( 19thnews.org )
A Question of Morality: A reflection on The Brothers Karamazov
A question of Morality: A reflection on The Brothers Karamazov...