British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for fiction with space-station novel 'Orbital'
British author Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital," which focuses on six astronauts aboard the ...
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Adam Thirlwell: On Yoko Tawada On Yoko Tawada
You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...
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With Friends Like These: World War II Advisory Efforts and the Origins of Sino-U.S. Competition
U.S. Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024); Zach ...
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The celestial tale branded the book of the year: Booker Prize winner Orbital, about astronauts 'stuck in a tin can' in space, leaves a harrowing message about climate ch…
Indeed, The Booker press release describes Orbital as 'a book about a wounded world' and cites its win in 'a year of ...
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Sanskrit to satellites, embassies in Delhi are using culture to show ties, get close to India
With major players engaged in ‘hard’ diplomacy, smaller embassies like Australia, Lithuania, Switzerland and others are ...
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Japan’s sake brewers hope UNESCO heritage listing can boost rice wine’s appeal
Deep in a dark warehouse, the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks. They hail from brewing techniques dating back ...
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Japan’s economy grows for a second straight quarter on the back of consumer spending
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s economy eked out an annual rate of 0.9% growth in the July-September quarter as consumer spending held up. Government data showed Friday that the world’s fourth-largest ...