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Victoria Gosling and the case of the missing diamond necklace We caught up with the founder of The Reader Berlin to talk about her novel Before the Ruins and literary life in the pandemic.  Artikel anhören Photo: Gijs Van Koningsveld Victoria Gosling Berlin/Wiltshire - For the past decade Victoria Gosling has run The Reader Berlin, a platform offering courses and services for the city's large community of English-language writers. Her own debut novel - Before the Ruins - was published by Henry Holt and Co in the US on 12 January, with the UK release planned for May. It's a cracking read ...

okayafrica Image via Flickr Creative Commons. Angola Officially Enacts Law Decriminalising Homosexuality Angola Officially Enacts Law Decriminalising Homosexuality After passing a new law decriminalising same-sex relationships in 2019, Angola has finally enacted its new penal code which is against the discrimination of LGBT Angolans. Angola has recently enacted a new law decriminalising homosexuality which, as of yesterday, will now legally protect the rights of Angolans who are a part of the LGBT community. The new penal code, which was passed in parliament back in 2019, do...

A new law decriminalising same-sex sexual relations in Angola has gone into effect on Wednesday. According to reports, the new law overturned a colonial-era ban on homosexual relations which described it as “vice against nature”. Activist Jean-Luc Romero-Michel tweeted, “The law decriminalising homosexuality adopted in Angola in 2019 took effect today. Discrimination on the basis […]

I thought for sure the Monstress series by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda was going to be the best thing I read this year, but something I read in the last couple of weeks of 2020 just barely edged out the spot. The Epic Crush of Genie Lo struck a chord in me, not only for its humor, but also because the teenagers actually act and sound like teenagers. It’s not often that I find a book that I feel gives an authentic experience (whether it’s a teenage one or something else, like a southern one) but when I do, those books always end up on my shelf. Add to that a fun dive into Chinese mytho...

‘Kent State’ On Top of PW’s 2020 Graphic Novel Critics Poll By PW Staff | Released in September during the 50th anniversary year of the 1970 tragedy, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams ComicArts) by veteran comics journalist Derf Backderf garnered the majority of votes in PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critic’s Poll, receiving eight votes from a panel of 14 comics critics. In this deeply researched work, Backderf, best known for his Eisner-nominated 2012 graphic nonfiction work My Friend Dahmer, reconstructs the lives and last days of the student activist...