Literary Calendar

In Siri Hustvedt’s latest novel The Blazing World, artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own, to universal acclaim. ‘All intellectual endeavours’ Burden herself remarks pugnaciously at the novel’s opening ‘fare better in the mind of the crowd when the crowd knows that somewhere behind the great work … it&hellip

The Save the Story series commissions celebrated writers from around the world to rewrite classic tales for children. Conceived by Alessandro Baricco in collaboration with Scuola Holden in Turin, the series is being published in English for the first time by Pushkin Press. Titles published so far have included Ali Smith’s retelling of Antigone, Yiyun Li’s version of Gilgamesh and Andrea Camilleri’s adaptation of Gogol’s The Nose. More information

Literary fans will have a fantastic chance to delve further into the inspirations behind Tigerman, the latest work of the celebrated novelist Nick Harkaway. In Sam Leith’s words: “On June 10th, I’m very pleased to say, we’re going to be hosting the enviably smart and inventive Nick Harkaway at the next Hidden Prologues salon at the Bloomsbury Street Hotel. He’s going to be talking about his new book Tigerman. Nick’s feelings on the subject being as they are I shan’t post&hellip

Almost a century after Einstein first proposed it, the full ramifications of the General Theory of Relativity are still being debated. Pedro Ferreira is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, and his new book The Perfect Theory brings to life both the science and the scientific controversies which have surrounded the General Theory since its conception. Pedro will be in conversation with Marcus du Sautoy, who has written of him ‘You couldn’t ask for a better guide to&hellip

Following on from the sparkling first part of her memoir, An Education, Lynn Barber takes us through her early career at Penthouse where she started out interviewing foot fetishists, voyeurs and men who liked wearing nappies, through her later more eminent career at the Telegraph, Sunday Express, Vanity Fair, Observer and Sunday Times for whom she interviewed politicians, films stars and musicians such as Gore Vidal, Rudolph Nureyev, Lady Gaga, James Stewart and Dirk Bogarde to name but a few. Characterised by her witty and honest style. Deborah Ross, author&hellip

If Virginia Woolf came back to life today, what would she make of it? How would she feel about what’s happening to books, and to the reputation of her own books, and of the Bloomsbury group?  The acclaimed novelist Maggie Gee, whose thirteen previous books include The White Family, My Cleaner and My Animal Life, this month publishes her new novel, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan, which imagines what ensues when an author working in the New York Public Library becomes so passionate about Woolf that&hellip

Film-maker, graphic designer, animator, cartoonist, photographer, internet and new media pioneer, installationist, novelist, critic, publisher – the French artist Chris Marker, who died in 2012 on the day of his 91st birthday was as versatile as he was prolific. He is best known for his film masterpieces Sans Soleil and La Jetée (the inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys) but his influence has been felt, perhaps even more keenly since his death, in almost every field of artistic endeavour. In an evening of readings, screenings&hellip

In 1993, Sigrid Rausing, the owner of publishers Granta, spent a year living in the village of Purksi in Estonia. Purksi was the site of the Lenin Collective Farm, a dilapidated reminder of the total control the USSR had enjoyed over the area just two years previously. This book charts her experiences on the former collective farm, the trials of the people she met in a nation which had enjoyed just nineteen years of independence in four centuries and the&hellip