Salman Rushdie to be subject of documentary inspired by memoir Knife | Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie to be subject of documentary inspired by memoir Knife | Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie will be the subject of a new documentary on his life and attempted assassination in 2022. Alex Gibney, the documentarian behind such films The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 3rd

Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 3rd

“The weather was so nice this weekend I didn’t even have time to binge an entire show.” Source link Read more »
Mapping a New Theory of Free Express…

Mapping a New Theory of Free Express…

In his historic 1919 dissent, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes named, and thus catalyzed the creation of, the marketplace of ideas. This conceptual space has, ever since, been used to give shape to... Read more »
Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next | Politics books

Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next | Politics books

In August 2021, Britain’s last ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, climbed on to a table holding a kitchen knife. He and a member of his security team had a small but... Read more »
UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga | Hay festival

UK within British empire is like last person left at a party, says David Olusoga | Hay festival

The historian David Olusoga has said the UK is the one country left in the British empire as he likened it to being the last oblivious person at a party. Asked at... Read more »
Private Rites by Julia Armfield review – familial conflict before the final days | Fiction

Private Rites by Julia Armfield review – familial conflict before the final days | Fiction

In Julia Armfield’s third book the effects of the climate crisis are felt daily. The city in which sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes live has been transformed by endless rain – and... Read more »
Growing sponsorship row leaves UK summer arts festivals in turmoil | Corporate sponsorship

Growing sponsorship row leaves UK summer arts festivals in turmoil | Corporate sponsorship

It is the sort of discussion that literary festivals pride themselves on being able to hold in a nuanced, civilised manner: are certain corporations ethical enough to sponsor the arts? Yet the... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 28th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, May 28th

“How was the beach?” Source link Read more »
Rose Tremain: ‘Sex scenes are like arias in opera. They have to move the story forwards’ | Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain: ‘Sex scenes are like arias in opera. They have to move the story forwards’ | Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain, 80, published her first novel in 1976 and has gone on to become one of her generation’s most admired talents, garnering numerous literary accolades along with a damehood in 2020.... Read more »
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