‘Relentless’ focus on literacy undermines reading for pleasure, says report | Books

‘Relentless’ focus on literacy undermines reading for pleasure, says report | Books

The “relentless” focus on measuring literacy progress in schools has “pushed reading for pleasure to the margins”, according to a new report. “Parents and schools both recognise that reading for pleasure matters,... Read more »
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 »
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