‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize | Books

‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize | Books

A few syntactical tics – and the verdict of an AI detection platform – have sparked a furore over the possibility that a short story given a prestigious literary award was written... Read more »
Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

After Daisy Fancourt’s daughter Daphne was born prematurely, she was confined to an incubator, fighting for her life against a series of infections. Unable to touch her baby or even properly enter... Read more »
‘Andy Burnham’s life was changed by the poet Tony Harrison’: writers discuss literature, politics and the 100 best novels | Books

‘Andy Burnham’s life was changed by the poet Tony Harrison’: writers discuss literature, politics and the 100 best novels | Books

Despite shortening attention spans, people are “still reading novels”, said the writer Elif Shafak at a panel event on the Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels ever published in English, which... Read more »
Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 20th

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Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

I Want You to Be Happy by Jem Calder review – romance for the terminally online | Fiction

The opening section of I Want You to Be Happy is an excellently droll and surefooted description of a man and a woman meeting in a bar, trying to make conversation over... Read more »
International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time | Culture

International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time | Culture

Taiwan Travelogue, a novel written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, has become the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker prize. Yáng and King... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 19th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 19th

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Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’ | Palestine

Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’ | Palestine

Intermezzo, the most recent book by Irish novelist Sally Rooney, will be published in Hebrew this month by the Israeli publisher November Books, in collaboration with +972 Magazine and Local Call. The... Read more »
Sally Rooney to publish Hebrew translation of novel with BDS-compliant publisher | Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney to publish Hebrew translation of novel with BDS-compliant publisher | Sally Rooney

The Irish novelist Sally Rooney is releasing a Hebrew translation of her latest novel more than four years after she turned down a translation of an earlier novel, citing her support for... Read more »
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