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3 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Colin Thubron |Ken Hom |Paul Auster |Matthew Parris
Portuguese journalist, politician and writer Bruno Maçães offers a new way to understand global events by arguing that geopolitics has become a contest not to control territory but to create territory. Maçães says the age of advanced technology has brought change to world politics. Great powers now seek to build a world for other states to inhabit while keeping the power to change the rules when necessary. Maçães describes this new form of geopolitics as ‘world-building’.
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4 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Paul Auster |Tim Waterstone |Anne Tyler |Matthew Parris
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah talks about his new novel, Theft, his first since the Nobel award, and receives the honorary fellowship of Oxford Literary Festival in recognition of his outstanding contribution to literature. The fellowship will be presented by the president of the festival, Miles Young, warden of New College.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Joanna Rubin Dranger, trans. from the Swedish by Maura Tavares. Ten Speed Graphic, $40 (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-83690-3“Who will remember them, if not us?” asks Dranger (Miss Remarkable and Her Career) in this meticulous chronicle of her Jewish family’s history of disruption and dislocation. When Dranger was growing up, her grandparents deflected her questions about relatives who “disappeared” in WWII.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Matthew Parris |Colin Thubron |Tim Waterstone |Paul Auster
Experts in international affairs and corruption Professor John Heathershaw and Tom Mayne discuss their analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law. The authors explain how the British government allowed extremely wealthy kleptocrats based largely in Russia and Eurasia to move to London and thrive with impunity.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Paul Auster |Tim Waterstone |Lucy Worsley |Colin Thubron
Baltic: The Future of Europe 10:00am 1 hour Bodleian: Convocation House £8 - £15 Foreign correspondent Oliver Moody looks at the nine Baltic countries and explains why the area is both critical to European security and increasingly a centre of political and military power.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Colin Thubron |Anne Tyler |Matthew Parris |Paul Auster
Science writer and broadcaster Marcus Chown says the answer to mankind’s most enduring questions – what is space? what is time? where did the universe come from? – may lie in black holes. Black holes often occur when a star approaches the end of its life and are a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light, can escape. Chown looks at the discovery of black holes and the enigma that could unlock the answers to the most profound questions about the universe.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Rainey follows Why Don’t You Love Me? with another mordantly funny, reality-bending graphic novel featuring malcontents obsessing over the minor frustrations of their humdrum lives. Mousy adult fanboy Cliff (handmade Dalek replica and all) longs for the affections of his roommate Kelly, an anxiety-rattled office drone who self-medicates by binging on yogurt. Rounding out the core cast is Cliff’s friend Barry, a noxious 30-something pop culture collector and porn addict.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
In this introspective graphic memoir debut, biology professor Gormally uses loose lined drawings and a straightforward panel grid to explore a complex topic: trauma. As a self-described “badass,” Gormally is accustomed to pushing toward defined achievements. They run miles every morning, ignoring worsening muscle pain, and spend their days overworking themself in their university lab (“Gotta double down”).
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Matt Kindt and Margie Kraft Kindt. Dark Horse, $29.99 (216p) ISBN 978-1-5067-4594-7Harvey award winner Kindt (the Mind MGMT series) collaborates with his mother, Margie Kraft Kindt, on this charming cozy whodunit that builds an intricate case around the murder of a Parisian antiques dealer. Amateur sleuths Meredith “Merry” Pearson and her nephew Sam have a knack for stumbling onto new cases.
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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Matt Kindt |Margie Kraft Kindt |Alison Bechdel |Paul Auster
Little Thunder, trans. from the Chinese by Montana Kane. Dark Horse, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5067-4600-5Hong Kong artist Little Thunder’s enchanting debut comprises three stories linked by the uncannily cute character Kylooe, a furry white monster who inhabits people’s dreams. In “Downhearted Dragonfly,” an awkward teenage girl living in the shadow of her popular sister meets a boy who lives in a rainbow-hued dreamland, but travel between their realities proves precarious.
