Obituary: Elizabeth Nunez
Trinidad-born writer Elizabeth Nunez, 80, died on November 8 at her home in Brooklyn. Nunez was the author of Prospero’s Daughter and several other novels including When Rocks Dance, Beyond the Limbo Silence, and more. She served as distinguished professor of English at Hunter College beginning in 2010 until retiring this spring.
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High Street Will Continue to Become A Smaller Segment at WH Smith
On Thursday, British retailer WH Smith reported sales for the full year ended August 31. For the year, sales rose 7 percent to £1.918 billion with profit before tax and non-underlying items up 16 percent to £166 million. High street sales were “in line with expectations” at £452 million, down 4 percent from £469 million. Profit of £39 million was down from £43 million a year ago. The company made plain what has been clear for a while from their results and their strategy: As they grow the travel business, the high street division—which accounts for about 15 percent of […]
Forthcoming: Sofi Oksanen’s ‘Same River, Twice’; Clinton’s Citizen
Harper Via will publish Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen‘s nonfiction work SAME RIVER, TWICE: PUTIN’S WAR ON WOMEN worldwide on February 25. Tor Jonasson at Salomonsson Agency in Sweden sold world English rights to Juan Mila. The publisher writes, “[Oksanen] delves into the trauma endured by her great-aunt under Soviet occupation, paralleling it with the ongoing abuses perpetrated by the Russian government over the past century. Her work lays bare the gender-based violence and systemic oppression that form part of the regime’s larger strategy.” Separately, the Guardian obtained an early copy of next week’s release of Bill Clinton‘s CITIZEN. They report […]