Literature

Literature
lit·er·a·ture | Literature, in its broadest sense, is any single body of written works. More restrictively, literature is writing that is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage. Its Latin root literatura/litteratura (derived itself from littera: letter or handwriting) was used to refer to all written accounts, though contemporary definitions extend the term to include texts that are spoken or sung (oral literature). The concept has changed meaning over time: nowadays it can broaden to have non-written verbal art forms, and thus it is difficult to agree on its origin, which can be paired with that of language or writing itself. Developments in print technology have allowed an evergrowing distribution and proliferation of written works, culminating in electronic literature. It can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction, and whether it is poetry or prose. It can be further distinguished according to major forms such as the novel, short story or drama; and works are often categorized according to historical periods or their adherence to certain aesthetic features or expectations (genre). – Wikipedia

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    The Happy Reader Issue 19 (Tilda Swinton) – loremnotipsum.com

    The Happy Reader – Issue 19

    The Happy Reader Issue 19 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. For this issue’s cover, inimitable actress TILDA SWINTON talks to the novelist Deborah Levy. In this landmark conversation Tilda looks into both the past and the future, seeking out the contours of how encounters with the work of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Muriel Spark shaped her worldview.
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    The Happy Reader – Issue 18

    The Happy Reader Issue 18 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. On the cover, photographer Davey Adésida captures the immeasurable energy of DIANE VON FURSTENBERG.
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  • The Happy Reader – Issue 16

    The Happy Reader Issue 16 is here and features Moses Sumney on the cover, photographed by Kennedi Carter in Asheville. Our Book of the Season is Sabahattin Ali’s breathtaking romance, MADONNA IN A FUR COAT.
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    The Happy Reader – Issue 15

    The Happy Reader Issue 15 is here and features Sarah Jessica Parker. Beaches, books and juniper berries: this season’s cover star Sarah Jessica Parker is photographed by Roe Etheridge in Amaganesett, Long Island. Our Book of the Season, JAPANESE GHOST STORIES, is centre of gravity to a series of hallucinatory artworks; correspondents around the world compile an obsessive yet fragmentary portrait of the book’s odd author, Lafcadio Hearn.
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    The Happy Reader – Issue 14

    The Happy Reader Issue 14 is available now on loremnotipsum.com and marks The Happy Reader’s fifth anniversary. As absorbing, beautiful and freewheeling as ever, it brings together an in-depth conversation with fashion’s Grace Wales Bonner and an exploration of Joris-Karl Huysmans’ fascinatingly odd novel Against Nature.
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    The Happy Reader – Issue 13

    The Happy Reader Issue 13 is available now on loremnotipsum.com! In Issue 13 we feature Owen Wilson. In this rare interview he invites The Happy Reader to get to know him while perusing the classic and not-so-classic titles stacked up around his home.
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  • The Happy Reader – Issue 12

    The Happy Reader Issue 12 is available now on loremnotipsum.com! In Issue 12 we feature Laurie Anderson. She discusses the dizzying breadth of her reading habits, which underpin everything she does, her useful belief in multiple realities, and the old Kindle she carries from her late husband, LOU REED.
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  • The Happy Reader – Issue 11

    The Happy Reader Issue 11 is out now! In Issue 11, we feature Olly Alexander. The concept of the magazine is excitingly simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one Penguin Classics title from an array of surprising and invigorating angles, through fashion, art, lifestyle, history, film and more.
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    The Happy Reader – Issue 10

    The Happy Reader Issue 10 is available now on loremnotipsum.com! In Issue 10, our summer classic is Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. The magazine is centred on the concept of ‘precious print’, as embodied by Penguin Classics and Fantastic Man.
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    Popshot Magazine – Issue 18 (the Light Issue)

    Popshot Magazine Issue 18 is out now. Our eighteenth issue comprises of illustrated short stories, flash fiction and poetry celebrating illuminating experiences and enlightened ideas. Inside, we’ll find a playful take on the light and dark of fairy-tales, a meditation on love that burns like a fuel and the heartfelt tragedy of a woman who grows lighter and lighter…
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    The Happy Reader – Issue 9

    The Happy Reader Issue 9 is out now! Wow, it's LILY COLE. A model who owns a bookshop. A movie actress who put it all on hold to clinch an art history degree. For every ounce — and there are many ounces — of celebrity possessed by the new Happy Reader cover star, there is at least one equal measure of bookishness.
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    Popshot Magazine – Issue 17 (the Future Issue)

    Popshot Magazine Issue 17 is out now. Our seventeenth issue, featuring a captivating collection of illustrated short stories and poems that cast into the future to imagine how life might be different.
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