Stephen Fry launches campaign to boost reading for pleasure
The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading.
December 28, 2025
The Hay festival president is asking readers for book recommendations that will ‘entice the most reluctant reader’ to help combat the decline in leisure reading.
When Kristin Kimball left New York City to interview a dynamic young farmer named Mark, her world changed.
ee Clay Johnson’s second novel, Bloodline, released in 2025 by Panamerica (the publishing arm of the newspaper County Highway), centers on Winston Alcorn, a grifter auctioneer transformed into a Lost Cause politician. Winston readily admits that he suf…
n the final chapter of his new memoir, Scene (Simon & Schuster, 2025), Abel Ferrara relates an anecdote about a fan coming up to him before the premiere of a recent film of his to tell him that The Driller Killer was one of his favorite movies and …
na Paula Maia’s slim, newly translated novel, On Earth as It Is Beneath (trans. Padma Viswanathan, Charco Press, 2025), set inside a failed Brazilian penal colony at the edge of the known, is a saga of nihilistic minimalism with the rarest of qualities…
An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World War
