Benjamin Wood: ‘John Fowles’s The Magus was so frustrating I threw it at the wall’ | Books

Benjamin Wood: ‘John Fowles’s The Magus was so frustrating I threw it at the wall’ | Books

My earliest reading memoryWhen I was eight, my mother bought me Stanley Bagshaw and the Short-sighted Football Trainer by Bob Wilson. I grew up thinking he was the same Bob Wilson who played... Read more »
Nero book awards: Benjamin Wood and Sarah Perry among prize winners | Books

Nero book awards: Benjamin Wood and Sarah Perry among prize winners | Books

Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper. Meanwhile, Claire Lynch won the debut fiction category for A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s... Read more »
The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits audiobook review – an American road trip with a twist | Fiction

The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits audiobook review – an American road trip with a twist | Fiction

At the start of The Rest of Our Lives, we learn that Tom, a 55-year-old law professor from New York, plans to leave his wife just as soon as he has dropped... Read more »
Benjamin Wood: ‘John Fowles’s The Magus was so frustrating I threw it at the wall’ | Books

Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’ | Pat Barker

Benjamin Myers first came across the Booker prize-winning author Pat Barker when he was seven or eight and, though he didn’t read her till much later, she made an impression, even then.... Read more »
Apology after Benjamin Zephaniah mural painted over in Birmingham | Birmingham

Apology after Benjamin Zephaniah mural painted over in Birmingham | Birmingham

A council contractor has apologised after painting over a mural of the late poet and actor Benjamin Zephaniah in Birmingham. The artwork appeared on the wall of an underpass in Hockley, central... Read more »
Nero book awards: Benjamin Wood and Sarah Perry among prize winners | Books

Birmingham mural honours legacy of poet giant Benjamin Zephaniah | Benjamin Zephaniah

The late Benjamin Zephaniah, one of Birmingham’s leading cultural figures, is to take his rightful place watching over the city when a new, official mural honouring the life of the poet and... Read more »
The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits audiobook review – an American road trip with a twist | Fiction

Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History

In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin’s entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across... Read more »
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