LITERATURE

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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