A Hundred Doors God! I’m lighting candles again, stillThe sentimental atheist, familyNames a kind of prayer or poem, my museOur Lady of a Hundred Doors. Supervised by a xenophobicSacristan, I plant in... Read more »
Michael Morpurgo to recite Vivaldi-inspired poetry at inaugural Cornwall festival | Michael Morpurgo
The author Sir Michael Morpurgo has spoken of the importance of taking the arts to places off the beaten track as he prepares for a recital of new poetry inspired by Vivaldi... Read more »
The narrator of American nonfiction author Michael Clune’s first novel is the 15-year-old Nicholas, who lives with his father in a housing development so cheap and deracinated it inspires existential terror. It’s a... Read more »
Original British art and creative skill is in peril thanks to the rise of AI and the government’s plans to loosen copyright rules, some of the UK’s leading cultural figures have said.... Read more »
Donald Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, refused to sign a statement saying Trump was not antisemitic, according to a new book by the veteran Trump tell-all author... Read more »
Northern Irish poet Michael Longley, whom Seamus Heaney described as “a custodian of griefs and wonders”, has died aged 85, his publisher has confirmed. The writer, who won the TS Eliot prize... Read more »
From tariff wars to torn-up trade agreements, Michael Beeman explores America’s recent and dramatic turn away from support for freer, rules-based trade to instead go its own new way. Focusing on America’s... Read more »
It is quite rare to find a writer like Lynne Reid Banks, who tries so many different subjects, and so many different ways of writing. The author of The L-Shaped Room and... Read more »
Michael Magee, 33, won this year’s Nero debut fiction award for Close to Home, now out in paperback, as well as last year’s Rooney prize for Irish literature (previously awarded to Anne... Read more »