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The book behind Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of magic realism - here’s why I love it

The seminal novel follows seven generations of the Buendía family in an isolated town

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2024

57 Years Later, Netflix Is Bringing an Influential and Unadaptable Epic Story to Life

One of the most influential fantasy novels will get a glitzy Netflix series adaptation. Here's when to expect '100 Years of Solitude.'

Inverse · Oct 8, 2024

From Macondo to Tokio: Hundred Years of Solitude has been a hit among Japanese audiences this Summer

A new, affordable, pocket-size paperback edition sold 290,000 copies in eight weeks and ranks #2 in the publisher's "bunko" top sellers

Latin Times · Sep 7, 2024

Movie Review: Her voice is lower, but Joan Baez has songs to sing and secrets to tell in new doc

Joan Baez was once a teenager with a guitar around her neck singing “We Shall Overcome.”

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023

God Forgets About the Poor by Peter Polites review – the author’s most striking work yet

Melding memoir and fiction, the author of Down the Hume and the Pillars makes magic and myth from his migrant mother’s life – and reaches beyond that too

The Guardian - AU · Aug 30, 2023

Heather Rose writes with raw beauty about trauma and 'hardcore spiritual work' – so why does it leave me cold?

I have to begin my review of acclaimed novelist Heather Rose’s first foray into non-fiction with an admission: I am a deeply unspiritual person. I find “spiritual journey” narratives, generally speaking, solipsistic and tedious: I even grew impatient reading Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.

The Conversation · Dec 4, 2022

Where cowboys rule

The Colombian writer and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. At his award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, a delegation of Colombian musicians performed for the event. Harp player Carlos "Cuco" Rojas, the founder of the Cimarron band, and lead singer Ana Veydo joined…

Bangkok Post · Jul 4, 2022

No point fretting over past...I am world champion: Nikhat Zareen

Maybe I'll get more real sense of it all when I return to India and meet my family, says the country's new world champion

The Times of India · May 21, 2022

A punch more powerful than a slap, and echoing still

When one Nobel Laureate punches another in the face, it is bigger news than a Hollywood actor slappi

The Hindu · Apr 9, 2022