Arts, Briefly: Two Literary Laurels
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Lucette Lagnado, a senior special writer and investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has won the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir, âThe Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Familyâs Exodus From Old Cairo to the New Worldâ (HarperCollins/Ecco). Ms. Lagnado was chosen by the Jewish Book Council for âher demonstration of a fresh vision and evidence of future potential to further contribute to the Jewish literary community.â ... Tom Sleigh of Brooklyn, a teacher in the creative writing program at Hunter College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his collection âSpace Walkâ (Houghton Mifflin). The annual award, established in 1992 in honor of the poet Kingsley Tufts and administered by Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., recognizes a poet âwho is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career.â.
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Arts & entertainment: Slightly amended literary classics receive rejection slips from 18 publishers and agents.
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How Lawrence Weiner transforms text into works of art.
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One of the world's most lauded - and most divisive - literary grandees is awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
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Two new story collections explore young deaths, sexual infidelities, and unraveling marriages.
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Arts & entertainment: Aristophanes' Lysistrata was about the power of women in a time of war. Blake Morrison felt an update was overdue.
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek is awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play,  T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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This fall education is a particularly hot topic in publishing. New books raise a wealth of ticklish questions.
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From Narnia to a Space Odyssey is a collection of the infrequent correspondence between noted authors Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis. I didn't even know they had corresponded, so I picked the book up from a bargain shelf for $4, and it turned out to be a fairly interesting if not particularly substantial bit of history, focusing mainly on their disagreements over space travel, and mainly initiated and driven by Clarke's attempts to engage Lewis in debate on the matter.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 6--Local poets will read their work at 7 p.m. Thursday at the new True North Creative Learning Center in Eagle. A reception will follow the reading.
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âThe Age of Turbulenceâ is really two books, one of which I suspect Alan Greenspan preferred writing and one of which he understood his audience would prefer reading.
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âPolitics of Passion: Plays of Anthony Minghellaâ consists of two short pieces that explore the limits of ordinary communication.
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COMMONSENSE and the Turner Prize are not usually associated with one another - but yesterday the judging panel broke with convention by awarding the prestigious accolade to the artist who was easily the popular favourite.
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Reviews of two new releases rife with magical realism: Pan's Labyrinth and The Fountain.
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Arts & entertainment: We asked 50 celebrated writers to nominate their favourite forgotten literary treasures.