Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 28th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 28th

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This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – an illuminating window on Emily Brontë’s world | Emily Brontë

This Dark Night by Deborah Lutz review – an illuminating window on Emily Brontë’s world | Emily Brontë

Both Emily Brontë and her only novel Wuthering Heights have been called “deranged”, “crazed” or (especially online, in the wake of the recent film) “unhinged”. So it’s a relief to read a biography where... Read more »
Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects | Autobiography and memoir

Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects | Autobiography and memoir

At the end of last year, Netflix released Too Much – a sickly, indie-sleaze romcom about an American transplant who falls for a troubled British muso. It was created by Lena Dunham and... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, April 28th

Zadie Smith: ‘I don’t know when I read men any more’ | Books

“I don’t know when I read men any more”, the writer Zadie Smith told a literary festival audience on Sunday. “It does happen sometimes, but it’s completely flipped compared to the reading... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 27th

Daily Cartoon: Monday, April 27th

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Tom Gauld on almost reading the greats – cartoon

Tom Gauld on almost reading the greats – cartoon

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Susan Choi and Lily King shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction | Women’s prize for fiction

Susan Choi and Lily King shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction | Women’s prize for fiction

Acclaimed US novelists Susan Choi and Lily King are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, in a lineup dominated by debut authors and independent publishers. The six... Read more »
‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

A few weeks after the German publication of his debut novel in 2024, author Matthias Jügler received a call from an employee at the German government agency tasked with investigating the human rights... Read more »
‘It’s still a no-go area’: German author Matthias Jügler on the trauma surrounding the GDR’s ‘stolen children’ | Fiction in translation

Newly released letters reveal JD Salinger’s wariness over ‘second-rate reviewers’ | JD Salinger

He was a reclusive author, who revealed little about himself or the inspiration for his 1951 masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye. Now letters that JD Salinger wrote to his editor have... Read more »
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