April 24, 2013

While the response to Granta’s latest crop of “Best of Young British Novelists” has been largely positive—the list has been widely and deservedly praised for its diversity—comments made by the… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

Plagiarism Education Week fails other moral tests

Sal Robinson

This week is Plagiarism Education Week, an admirable idea, and certainly useful after the past year, which saw a number of high profile plagiarism scandals—in fact, so many that Jonathan… Read more »

Churnalism: helping you read journalism and not press releases

Ariel Bogle

The media dark art of “churnalism,” copying press releases straight into articles, is a much-maligned problem, but one that has been hard to catch until now. The term “churnalism” was… Read more »

Sing-along Moby-Dick

Zeljka Marosevic

Recently, we brought you a report on the BBC’s forthcoming new drama, The Whale, which will centre around the tragedy of the Essex whaleship, the historical basis for Moby-Dick. Now, we bring you… Read more »

Let’s recognize Isaac Asimov’s house

Nick Davies

The Philadelphia Weekly has started a petition this week to get a historical marker placed at the onetime home of author Isaac Asimov. The author of classic science fiction works… Read more »

Melville House Books

Granta editor: Leeds is “completely out of the literary world”

Alex Shephard