The Byword

A magazine that aims to chronicle the profusion and evolution of literature, arts and culture. [email protected]

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Hear Banks' hypnotic, stinging new single "Gemini Feed" from new album 'The Altar' https://t.co/oXXll4S3O3

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How Virginia and Vita fell in love—the true story behind "the longest and most charming love letter in literature" https://t.co/1K5RPuGh5D

[Siddhartha Gigoo @siddharthagigoo]

Months ago #SumeghaGulati called me. She talked about politics, art, films, cancer, life & death. I was stunned.

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[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“Our literary forebears are enormous. They stand behind us like Easter Island statues.” —John Banville https://t.co/gNFU9z94ML

[PEN America @PENamerica]

"Her writing was a political battle for the downtrodden and she never compromised on her ideas." RIP Mahasweta Devi. https://t.co/8R70BONh9b

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"It’s not just destruction. It’s also construction. It’s critical intimacy, not critical distance." https://t.co/VIN8ywA0B8

[New York Times Arts @nytimesarts]

2016 Venice Film Festival lineup is announced https://t.co/bbrapo6U91

[Simon Prosser @HamishH1931]

Just in, via @HollandsAnnie, the stereo Zadie Smith SWING TIME bound proofs

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Joshua Ferris Reads “The Abandonment” https://t.co/My9UazZZRq via @newyorker

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Read an in-depth interview with Kunal Basu by Rituparna Roy in the latest issue of The Byword.… https://t.co/k6YTTt3vyO

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Novel-Gazing: An Essay on Milan Kundera https://t.co/UYpfvtqJuh

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Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21 https://t.co/q6VezN55u9

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Frida Kahlo, Whose Self-Portraits Spoke to the Soul https://t.co/NR9BHLpi1c

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Faulkner died on this day in 1962. He once wrote this beautiful epitaph for himself: https://t.co/vzRM4QpGii

[Santasree Chaudhuri @Iamsantasree]

There is only one basic purity that was taught by the Buddha, the purity which liberates, that is purity of mind, freedom from greed hatred

[Devdan Chaudhuri @DevdanChaudhuri]

The criminal Iraq War that started the ruin of Middle East and gave rise to extremism & violence https://t.co/NW6RfcYMHr

[PEN America @PENamerica]

"All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom." #IsmailKadare

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.” —Eudora Welty https://t.co/sxoA7fEt7Y