From the New York Review of Books, an essay by Michael Chabon on the litigation surrounding the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The essay in slightly altered form also appears in the forthcoming collection Fight...
Sharon Bala has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her first Novel The Boat People (Random House/Anchor, 2018). Before her death, Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set...
From the Writing Excuses podcast, a discussion of what writers get wrong when they write about legal procedures. Lou Perry, an attorney and writer, is the guest. As a followup, Molly Ringle published this...
Newly published from EnrickBEditions: Valère Ndior and Nicolas Rousseau, Le Droit dans la Saga Harry Potter (2019). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. Le serment inviolable est-il...
Clarendon Reconsidered: Law, Loyalty, Literature, 1640-1674 (Philip Major, ed., Routledge, 2019). Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century British politics, constitutional history and literature. Despite his influence in these and other...
Writer Zac O’Yeah (Tropical Detective, A Hero For Hire) discusses Indian cultural elements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories for The Hindu. He notes that while a major pleasure of the stories is...
It’s World Dracula Day! Here’s a short bibliography on Bram Stoker’s famous work and the law. Gary Day, The State of Dracula: Bureaucracy and the Vampire, in Re-Reading Victorian Fiction 81 (2000). Peter J....
Bernadette Meyler, Professor of Law, Stanford University, is publishing Theaters of Pardoning (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) (September, 2019) (Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law). Here, from the publisher’s website, is a description...
In a new post for the great website Crime Reads, novelist (and law professor) Alafair Burke puts the spotlight on legal novels which turn on domestic relations issues, including the classic To Kill a...
PEN America is accepting applications for its Writing For Justice Fellowships. These fellowships support emerging or established writers in creating written works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and...