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Poem about ‘relentlessness of the news cycle’ wins National Poetry Competition
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (707+ words) distressing world events has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition. The Gathering by Partridge...potency amid the anaesthetising relentlessness of the news cycle? How do we resist false narratives, eclipsed...
The Transformations by Andrew Pippos review – a tender study of an ordinary man doing his best
10+ mon, 6+ day ago (892+ words) newsroom of a fictional broadsheet newspaper, the National. Pippos’s focus is on amiable everyman George,...newsroom of a fictional broadsheet newspaper, the National. Pippos’s focus is on amiable everyman George,...
The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín review – subtle short stories about being far from home
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1317+ words) The Guardian The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín review – subtle short...to do with displacement, not familiarity; their news is not from Dublin, but from the places where Dublin’s news might land. They interrogate what it means, and...been…...
Leah Williamson and Richard Osman back National Year of Reading
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (366+ words) reading for pleasure, as the government and the National Literacy Trust launch the National Year of Reading. Unveiled on Tuesday at Arsenal’s...reversing the decline in reading for pleasure as “a national mission”, adding: “Through the National Year of Reading…...
The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review – a propulsive story of German resistance
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (892+ words) A thriller-like account of the influential men and women who opposed Hitler and paid a terrible priceOn 10 September 1943, a loose group of well-connected friends met in a small apartment in the Charlottenberg area of Berlin. The host was Elisabeth von…...
‘There’s a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable’: novelist Alan Hollinghurst
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (256+ words) A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty… the author on a year of personal success and political change Win, like Guest and like Hollinghurst himself, is an only child, and I…...
A former Tory councillor tried to ban my novel Pigeon English. Why should pupils suffer because of him?
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1506+ words) My book, which draws on my upbringing on a diverse and deprived Luton council estate, has been used as a GCSE text. But one man objected to its profane language and depictions of violence and sexual behaviourBack in September, in…...
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (565+ words) Author tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogether The Irish author Sally Rooney has told the high court she is highly unlikely to be able to publish new work in…...
After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal
11+ mon, 1+ hour ago (410+ words) The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon Today, Oscar Wilde is one of the most celebrated writers in English, both instantly recognisable and actually read. His plays are…...
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (1179+ words) A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastropheThe sheer Englishness of Ian McEwan’s fiction may not be fully visible…...