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1 Mar 2026

Leamos: a human reading group online

Leamos is a reading group started by marketing specialist Benjamedn Edwards. The club began in September 2024 and holds weekly online meetings; Edwards says human groups offer emotional and creative things AI cannot fully replace.

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12 Feb 2026

Mani Lohani: Nepali writer on love and death

Mani Lohani is a Nepali writer and television journalist active for more than three decades. In an email interview he discusses his poetry, fiction, themes of love and death, and hopes readers choose kindness and awareness.

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26 Dec 2025

Tomorrow Club: young writers share voices from Asia

PEN International’s Tomorrow Club connects young writers with mentors and publishes personal and political stories. The latest Asia edition brought together many young contributors and highlighted censorship, exile and calls for more support and mentorship.

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15 Dec 2025

Moharaj Sharma: poet, journalist and documentary maker

Moharaj Sharma is a Nepali poet, journalist and documentary maker. He works at AP1 Television, studies Nepali language roots, and has made a documentary about Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees while writing poetry about identity and social change.

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19 Oct 2025

Czech company Knihobot sells millions of used books online

Czech readers buy many books and a firm, Knihobot, turned used-book demand into a large online service. The company collects, lists and sells secondhand books and now works in nine European countries.

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13 Oct 2025

Nick: Comics, Horror and Politics in Exarchia

Nick is an Athens comic artist who uses horror to talk about real political problems. His work changed after the Tempi train crash and October 7, 2023; his comic Vile Hunter mixes the supernatural with political critique.

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21 Sept 2025

Concerns over arts funding and the future of Bocas Lit Fest

Marina Salandy-Brown links recent funding changes to wider problems in how Trinidad and Tobago values culture. She describes lost sponsorships, gaps in state support and calls for a statutory Arts Council with stable funding.

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31 Jul 2025

Budhani: a Tharu fable refabulated

"Budhani" is a novella retold from an Indigenous Tharu folktale. It follows a crow reborn as a girl, and it mixes a fight for rights with scenes of love and family conversation.

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25 Jul 2025

First Black woman elected to Brazil's Academy of Letters

On July 10 Ana Maria Gonçalves was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), becoming the first Black woman in its 128-year history. She is a novelist best known for Um defeito de cor.

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