Many readers, and surely most Irish readers, will finish this book in a state of white-knuckled rage, mingled with sorrow and at least a pang of guilt. It is a detailed, thoroughgoing... Read more »
The director of Adelaide writers’ week, Louise Adler, has resigned after the board of the Adelaide festival announced it had dumped the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the literary event. “I... Read more »
The ambition to create is indistinguishable from the fear, verging sometimes on conviction, that you can never do so. Glück’s genius as a poet was reflected in her keen understanding that the... Read more »
Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80 Oct 13 2023 Louise Glück, the Nobel prize-winning author and a former poet laureate of the United States, has died at the age of... Read more »