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From queer ecstasy to award-winning post-punk, here are our critics’ favourite releases of the year

Barbara Zitwer was thrilled at a wave of positive feedback about her book, “The Korean Book of Happiness: Joy, Resilience and The Art of Giving,” which has been on sale in physical and online bookstores since March last year.

This week's PBS Feature Album is the debut self-titled album by Australian based Americana duo Minor Gold. Minor Gold captures the duo at their finest, weaving masterful harmonies around stripped-back, organic arrangements that draw on everything from 70’s west-coast pop and Bleecker St. steeped folk to the ballad-power and polaroid romance of the 80’s.

Spilling the beans about oneself is an ego trip no one can resist.

Gena Rose Bruce’s voice is capable of sounding dreamy (see: Future), gutsy (Destroy Myself’s choruses) and everything in between, as required, and her delicious timbre brings Abby Dobson (Leonardo’s Bride) to mind.

With a feature from Bill Callahan, the Melbourne artist’s second album showcases her evolution as a sharp, honest songwriter

From Granville Austin’s ‘The Indian Constitution’ to Malika Amar Shaikh’s ‘I Want to Destroy Myself’, a list of essential reading.

An independent India reading list

Multiple layers of history, a culture suspended in time, a way of life oscillating between the past and the present, fables as old as time and as new as now -- there are many things about Old Delhi that theatre director Anamika Haskar can never ...

Posted : 2021-08-04 13:43 New York-based literary agent Barbara Zitwer / Courtesy of Barbara Zitwer New York-based literary agent recently inked a flurry of deals with big Western publishers to release Korean novels globally By Kang Hyun-kyung Exporting Korean novels is a delicate and time-consuming job that requires network with big Western publishers as well as a significant level of knowhow in pitching translated books to them. Adding to the complexity, several different groups of people b...