The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård review – can this sprawling epic deliver on its promise? | Fiction

The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård review – can this sprawling epic deliver on its promise? | Fiction

Karl Ove Knausgård’s Morning Star cycle may turn out to be even larger in scope than his six-volume autofictional bestseller, My Struggle. Four books deep, this gargantuan work of supernatural existentialism is... Read more »
Ncuti Gatwa leads star winners at first Speakies awards for audio storytelling | Audiobooks

Ncuti Gatwa leads star winners at first Speakies awards for audio storytelling | Audiobooks

Audiobooks narrated by Ncuti Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan and David Tennant were among those recognised at the inaugural British Audio awards, the “Speakies”. Gatwa’s performance in the lead role of Gatsby in Harlem... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 25th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, November 25th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
A Romp Through Rea Irvin’s Forgotten Sunday Funnies

A Romp Through Rea Irvin’s Forgotten Sunday Funnies

Rea Irvin, the magazine’s first art editor, is best known for creating Eustace Tilley, the monocled dandy whose upturned nose has graced our pages for a hundred years. Irvin established the stylish... Read more »
Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science | Biography books

Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science | Biography books

Most people could tell you that Francis Crick, together with James Watson, discovered the double helix structure of DNA, and shaped our understanding of how genes work. Fewer know that Crick also played a... Read more »
Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous | Canada

Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous | Canada

A prominent Canadian-American author, who has long claimed Indigenous ancestry and whose work exposed “the hard truths of the injustices of the Indigenous peoples of North America”, has learned from a genealogist... Read more »
Poem of the week: Missing You by Miles Burrows | Poetry

Poem of the week: Missing You by Miles Burrows | Poetry

Missing You Did you know the moon was so oldIt might have to go into a home? It keeps edging nearerThe way old people do. Goya wore candles on his hatBut Humphrey... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 24th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, November 24th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgård review – can this sprawling epic deliver on its promise? | Fiction

Holbein: Renaissance Master by Elizabeth Goldring review – a magnificent portrait of the artist | Books

Much of what we know, or think we know, about the court of Henry VIII comes directly from the paintings of Hans Holbein. There’s the famous portrait of the king himself –... Read more »
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