![]() ![]() Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has long been an admirer of K… Her poems are genuine, open and often deeply personal. Jackie Kay with Nicola Sturgeon (2016 Event) Scotland's Makar, Jackie Kay, has a proud history of writing poetry about believable characters ordinary people like herself. Now, with She Persisted Around the World, Clinton celebrates women shaping global hum… Chelsea Clinton saluted them in her children’s book, She Persisted. Peter Ross: The Stories and Glories of Graveyards How is it possible that a book about graveyards can be so full of life? The colourful characters who populate Peter Ross’s non-fiction book, A Tomb with a View, include a bisexual Italian Bohemian hedonist named Marchesa Luisa Casati, who is buried in B…Ĭhelsea Clinton (2018 Event) From Harriet Tubman to Oprah Winfrey, plenty of tenacious women have fought for freedom in America. Each year he and his wife Penny travel from their home in Ramallah to spend the summer in Edinburgh, and Book Festival audience… Raja Shehadeh: The Quest for Peace For many years, lawyer and writer Raja Shehadeh has shared his wisdom about life under occupation in the Palestinian West Bank. ![]() In emot…Īmin Maalouf & Jonathan Sacks: Rediscovering Our Moral Compass How can we rediscover human solidarity when the world feels like it has lost its way? The European Union is under extreme strain, the US has lost its moral credibility, and the world is so divided that it seems unable to address global threats to the envi… The narrative begins in 1949 from the perspective of an Israeli soldier, operating with his platoon at the desert border with Egypt. Lif…Īdania Shibli: When the Present is Haunted by the Past A novel in two parts, Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is superbly translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette. Guardian and Vogue columnist Hadley Freeman does not subscribe to that one bit and is so passionate about 80s American movies that she’s written a book about them. Hadley Freeman (2016 Event) For many, the 80s was a decade that taste didn’t just forget, but totally bypassed. Both Patricia Lockwood and Raven Leilani have written sizzling debut novels that are being celebrated by critics, loved by readers and gaining recognition from major liter… Raven Leilani & Patricia Lockwood: Sharp, Fragmentary Fiction Fans of cutting-edge fiction will not want to miss this brilliant meeting of minds. Blurring the boundary between the page and stage, the brilliant author and playwright has produced a book of thirty short entertainments that function both a… Michael Frayn (2015 Event) With Matchbox Theatre, Michael Frayn has produced perhaps his most daringly unusual book to date. This is a live event, with an author Q&A. Joining him in this event is Adrienne Raphel, author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them. Pour yourself a drink and gather with The New York Times’s digital crossword editor Joel Fagliano to discover in real time how a crossword is made, how the team works, and you’ll get to take part in a live mini crossword-making session. More than 75 years later, people are still turning to The New York Times Crossword in times of crisis for comfort, stimulation and (occasionally) the competitive destruction of friends and family. By 1924, Simon & Schuster had capitalised on the craze, publishing the first crossword book.Ī New York Times Opinion column at the time called the puzzles ‘a primitive sort of mental exercise’ and a ‘sinful waste’ of time, but after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, an editor made the decision to run a crossword puzzle in the paper as an antidote to blackout hours, to offer relief to its war-weary readers.Īnd here we are. The world’s first crossword puzzle was published in 1913. ‘You can’t think of your troubles while solving a crossword.’ Margaret Farrar, Founding Crossword Editor, The New York Times.
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