Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 21st

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, January 21st

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‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie | Poetry

‘There is a sense of things careening towards a head’: TS Eliot prize winner Karen Solie | Poetry

Early on in her latest collection, the Canadian poet Karen Solie apologises: “I’m sorry, I can’t make this beautiful.” The line appears in a poem, Red Spring, about agribusiness and its sinister... Read more »
‘I could never hope to equal it again’: Jeffrey Archer announces next novel will be his last | Jeffrey Archer

‘I could never hope to equal it again’: Jeffrey Archer announces next novel will be his last | Jeffrey Archer

Bestselling novelist Jeffrey Archer has announced his next novel, Adam and Eve, will be his last, coming out 50 years after his debut was published. The 85-year-old author has sold more than... Read more »
Extracting Blackness, from the Middle Ages to Today

Extracting Blackness, from the Middle Ages to Today

In the Middle Ages, the lives of saints were the closest thing to bestsellers: stories copied, read aloud, and performed across Europe. They offered the faithful models of virtuous suffering, miraculous healing,... Read more »
Poem of the week: Now, Mother, What’s the Matter? by Richard W Halperin | Poetry

Poem of the week: Now, Mother, What’s the Matter? by Richard W Halperin | Poetry

Now, Mother, What’s the Matter? Only the monsters do not have troubled hearts.Life is for troubled hearts. Art is for troubledhearts. For my whole life, Hamlet has beena bridge between. Hamlet’s ‘Now,... Read more »
Extracting Blackness, from the Middle Ages to Today

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, January 20th

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Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era | Fiction

Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era | Fiction

Rob Doyle’s previous novel, Threshold, took the form of a blackly comic travelogue narrated by an Irish writer named Rob. In one episode before Rob becomes an author, we see him as a sexually... Read more »
‘I could never hope to equal it again’: Jeffrey Archer announces next novel will be his last | Jeffrey Archer

Karen Solie’s Wellwater wins TS Eliot poetry prize | TS Eliot prize for poetry

The Canadian poet Karen Solie has won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize for a collection of work, Wellwater, which explores the destruction of the natural world. Solie was announced as the... Read more »
Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked! | Books

Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked! | Books

10 Duffy (1980) Duffy is the first in a series of crime novels about a bisexual private eye that Barnes published under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. It came out the same year... Read more »
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