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Alia Swastika is the founder and director of the Biennale Jogja, whose seventeenth edition is on view through November 25, 2023, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Swastika is also part of the curatorial team (with Natasha Ginwala, Amal Khalaf, Zeynep Öz, and Megan Tamati-Quennell) for the Sharjah Biennial 16, slated to open in February 2025.

The second in a series of reading lists to celebrate Women in Translation Month, which is observed in August every year.

ALISON BOSHOFF: The possibilities for a sequel and other spin-offs are being actively considered, as the feeling is this spy thriller has serious, Bond-type legs.

Advertisement Novelist S.L. Lim has become the first non-binary writer to be in contention for one of Australia’s most important literary awards since changes were made to the eligibility requirements of the $50,000 Stella Prize for women’s writing. But Lim, who made the longlist with second novel Revenge: Murder in Three Parts, played down the significance of the inclusion which comes after the award changed entry guidelines to include women-identifying and non-binary writers in 2019. Lim...

COMEDIAN Janey Godley, singer Karine Polwart and partners in crime writing Chris Brookmyre and Dr Marisa Haetzman are among those joining 2020 Booker winner Douglas Stuart at Paisley Book Festival next month. This year’s event will be a digital forum but it means audiences will be able to listen in the comfort of their own homes to contributors from across the world. The theme, Radical New Futures, emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic and the resilience and fortitude that people and communi...