Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine? | Health, mind and body books

After Daisy Fancourt’s daughter Daphne was born prematurely, she was confined to an incubator, fighting for her life against a series of infections. Unable to touch her baby or even properly enter... Read more »
International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time | Culture

International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time | Culture

Taiwan Travelogue, a novel written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, has become the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker prize. Yáng and King... Read more »
Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’ | Palestine

Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’ | Palestine

Intermezzo, the most recent book by Irish novelist Sally Rooney, will be published in Hebrew this month by the Israeli publisher November Books, in collaboration with +972 Magazine and Local Call. The... Read more »
Eric Huntley obituary | Black British culture

Eric Huntley obituary | Black British culture

Eric Huntley, who has died aged 96, was the co-founder with his wife, Jessica, of the radical publishing house Bogle L’Ouverture, set up in London in 1968 to showcase black writing talent.... Read more »
Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’ | Palestine

Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era | Fiction

Rob Doyle’s previous novel, Threshold, took the form of a blackly comic travelogue narrated by an Irish writer named Rob. In one episode before Rob becomes an author, we see him as a sexually... Read more »
John Updike’s best books – Ranked! | Culture

John Updike’s best books – Ranked! | Culture

Inspired by and drawing on three British novels (HG Wells’s The Time Machine, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Henry Green’s Concluding), Updike’s debut imagines a near future where the residents of a... Read more »
Artists plan nationwide US protests against Trump and ‘authoritarian forces’ | Culture

Artists plan nationwide US protests against Trump and ‘authoritarian forces’ | Culture

Artists and artistic organisations around the US are set to take part in a series of protests and events to speak out against Donald Trump and his administration. According to the New... Read more »
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler audiobook review – a masterclass in marital disharmony | Culture

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler audiobook review – a masterclass in marital disharmony | Culture

At the start of Three Days in June, Gail Baines, a 61-year-old teacher, has a meeting with her school head, who informs her she is about to retire. Gail assumes she is... Read more »
Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked! | Culture

Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked! | Culture

After more than 30 years, Atwood caved to pleas to write a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. Not since Harry Potter had a publication caused such a sensation: computers were hacked in... Read more »
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