Unsayable by Michael Cunningham review – The Hours author on the insecurities that powered his creative life | Autobiography and memoir

Unsayable by Michael Cunningham review – The Hours author on the insecurities that powered his creative life | Autobiography and memoir

As an eight-year-old in comfortable, solid, suburban California, Michael Cunningham felt compelled to make art before he quite understood what it was, or could do: a painting of souls ascending to heaven,... Read more »
Children’s literature festival criticised after requests that comments on diversity be deleted | Books

Children’s literature festival criticised after requests that comments on diversity be deleted | Books

Bath children’s literature festival is facing criticism after its founder emailed authors asking them to delete social media posts about the festival’s lack of diversity in its 2026 programme. Authors said that... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Friday, July 24th

Daily Cartoon: Friday, July 24th

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Lucy Caldwell: ‘Even your text messages fizz after reading James Joyce’ | Books

Lucy Caldwell: ‘Even your text messages fizz after reading James Joyce’ | Books

My earliest reading memoryThe summer my middle sister was born, my mum and I would walk to the shops at Cherryvalley, in east Belfast, to do her messages, and she’d buy me the latest issue of... Read more »
Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side | Alan Turing

Racy short story by Alan Turing offers glimpse of ‘playful, funny, cheeky’ side | Alan Turing

When people think of Alan Turing, they might imagine he was arrogant, isolated, humourless, tortured. A better way of remembering the father of modern computing would be, an academic argues, as “playful,... Read more »
The Midnight Train by Matt Haig audiobook review – a cosy, feelgood journey | Books

The Midnight Train by Matt Haig audiobook review – a cosy, feelgood journey | Books

The latest novel from the Reasons to Stay Alive author Matt Haig begins with an octogenarian man having a heart attack. Former business magnate Wilbur Budd is already feeling a bit peculiar... Read more »
Unsayable by Michael Cunningham review – The Hours author on the insecurities that powered his creative life | Autobiography and memoir

Raymond Briggs’s library goes on sale at his local Oxfam shop | Books

The book collection of the creator of The Snowman and Fungus the Bogeyman has gone on sale at Oxfam’s Hove bookshop in East Sussex and online. More than 1,000 books from the... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 23rd

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 23rd

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Air by Christian Kracht review – a metaphysical jigsaw puzzle | Fiction

Air by Christian Kracht review – a metaphysical jigsaw puzzle | Fiction

A reclusive interior designer named Paul travels from his home in Orkney to the Norwegian coastal city of Stavanger for a most unusual commission. A data­centre housing a vast internet server is located... Read more »
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