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An Evening in the In-Between: Bi+ Lines at the National Poetry Library
Photo by Anainah Dalal So often, in art and all that surrounds it, we tend to get caught up in binaries. Binaries of meanings and...
Anainah Dalal
Dec 14, 20234 min read


STRAND Magazine Arts and Culture Roundup 2023: Our Top Picks From This Year
Image courtesy of Ian Schneider via Unsplash (licensed under Unsplash License) It's the most wonderful time of the year, as I'm sure the...
The Strand Magazine
Dec 1, 202310 min read


The Apogee of Mainstream and 'Popular Literature' in the New Prix Goncourt
Jean-Baptiste Andrea at the festival Livre sur le Quais (2019), by ActuaLitté (licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0) A red band on the cover is...
Meri-Li Mercier
Dec 1, 20233 min read


Collecting Our Cultural Heritage: The Chelsea Rare Book Fair
Collectors and curious bibliophiles attended the Chelsea Rare Book fair held at the Old Town Hall the first weekend of November. Nearly...
Anna Mowery
Dec 1, 20235 min read


Jon Fosse Wins the Nobel Literature Prize
Photo by Tom A. Kolstad (licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0) The day following the announcement of Jon Fosse’s Nobel Literature Prize win, I...
Ellie Stiff
Nov 20, 20232 min read


In Conversation with Jinhao Xie
STRAND writer Bianca Layog interviews three Barbican Young Poets — Fathima Zahra, Troy Cabida, and Jinhao Xie — who performed at the...
Bianca Layog
Nov 19, 202317 min read


Sir Ian Rankin's 'The Rise' at LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2023
As part of this year’s London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre, Sir Ian Rankin graced Queen Elizabeth Hall to discuss his new...
Molly Whiting
Nov 17, 20237 min read


Where Do We Go From Here? Oliver Jeffers: Begin Again at LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2023
Photo by Caroline Tompkins, Courtesy of Southbank Centre From How to Catch a Star and The Way Back Home, Oliver Jeffers has written and...
Sophie Cheung
Nov 17, 20233 min read


"Significance blooms like mad" - Helen Oyeyemi: Trying at LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2023
Photo by Tereza Linhartová, Courtesy of Southbank Centre “The sense we make gets broken all the time,” as in life as it is in art. What...
Jorvell Ong
Nov 17, 20233 min read


Publishing No More a Mystery - Literature Powerhouses at LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2023
Photo by Anainah Dalal The publishing world is often seen as this big, scary machine, that no one ever really understands the workings...
Anainah Dalal
Nov 17, 20235 min read
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