Judy Garland's iconic shoes from The Wizard of Oz sell for a staggering $28 million, setting a new benchmark in entertainment memorabilia.
Maurice Sendak’s rare "Wild Thing" artwork, celebrating New York and literature, is set to dazzle bidders at Sotheby’s with an estimated value of $300,000–600,000.
The third installment of the ‘Orhan Pamuk: The Comfort of Objects’ exhibition opened this Wednesday at the DOX Modern Art Museum in Prague, where it welcomed Czech visitors. The exhibition, which will run until April 6, includes a wide array of works,
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. Orbital is a poignant exploration of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The novel, which follows six astronauts over a single day and 16 sunrises and sunsets, was
One of France’s most prestigious literary awards, the Prix Goncourt, was awarded to Algerian writer Kamel Daoud. In his novel published by Gallimard, Daoud delves into Algeria’s civil war period from 1992 to 2002, known as the “Black Decade.” The main character,
In Claire Keegan’s deeply evocative novella Small Things Like These, set against the raw chill of an Irish winter in 1985, a coal merchant, Bill Furlong, finds himself at a moral crossroads. As he uncovers the hidden cruelties of a Magdalene laundry
In a powerful statement of solidarity, a coalition of prominent authors, including Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux and Rupi Kaur, Sally Rooney, and Judith Butler, has pledged to boycott Israeli cultural institutions perceived as “silent observers” of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in
Oxford University’s Bodleian Libraries has made a discovery, uncovering what may be William Blake’s earliest etchings from his days as an apprentice. Using state-of-the-art ARCHiOx scanning technology, which captures surfaces at over a million pixels per square inch, researchers were able to
An extraordinary typescript of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, featuring the author’s own handwritten corrections and sketches, will soon be available for purchase at the price of $1.25 million. Regarded as a “literary treasure” by rare book dealers, this unique
South Korean Literary Icon Receives Highest Honor In a momentous announcement, 53-year-old South Korean novelist Han Kang has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy praised Han for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes
