A day at (virtual) Hay: highlights from Saturday 29 May
The Hay Festival returns in a virtual format for the second year in a row, and Editor Alyssa Gibbons recounts a day of virtual events.
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Books
‘The History Makers’: why Random House’s decision to pull Richard Cohen book is historic in itself
Celia Bergin
May 31
Do self-help books actually help?
Ellie Baker
May 29
‘Cancel culture’ is a shameful stain on the book world
Sidney Pycroft
May 27
Non-tedious non-fiction recommendations
Lucy Carter
May 25
What’s behind the boom in book sales during the pandemic?
Noah Keate
May 23
Libraries are pivotal in nurturing a love of learning
Will Barber-Taylor
May 21
The pleasures of countercyclical reading
Monika Hartmann
May 19
Top Content
- 1International Women’s Day: spotlight on Nadine Asbali’s Veiled Threat
- 2Is Les Misérables worth reading?
- 3The Death of the Author: What the Neil Gaiman case means to readers
- 4Investigating the US banned books list
- 5I Who Have Never Known Men: Reading between the lines
- 6Lost in translation: sentiments English cannot do justice, with a focus on Camus’s ‘The Stranger’
- 7The Poetry Collection: Louise Glück: ‘doesn’t Joy, like fear, make no sound?’
- 8Women of the World: Clarice Lispector and breaking the bounds of literature
- 9Literary alchemy: cross-genre recommendations
- 10The success of Sunrise on the Reaping and the continued legacy of the Hunger Games trilogy