My earliest reading memoryNot my earliest reading memory, exactly, but my earliest memory of reading with avid enjoyment: The Three Investigators mysteries, a series of kids’ books about three juvenile detectives operating in... Read more »
My earliest reading memory When I was about four or five, I think. I was living in Long Melford, Suffolk, with my foster parents, and my foster dad was trying to teach... Read more »
Andrew Michael Hurley The Summer People by Shirley Jackson I read this years ago and it’s a story that’s truly haunted me ever since. The titular “summer people” are the Allisons from... Read more »
A previously unpublished series of poems by the late novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch is to be printed, shedding new light on her life and relationships, and marking the first time the... Read more »
My earliest reading memoryHarvey’s Hideout by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Lillian Hoban. Harvey is a muskrat with a grievance against his awful sibling. His sister Mildred feels just the same way. I... Read more »
A trove of unpublished poems by the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney is set to be printed alongside his collected and uncollected poems, published together for the first time. The Poems of... Read more »
The banning of books, it would be easy to think, is a relic of less enlightened ages. The Catholic church, in a last spasm of rectitude, added Jean-Paul Sartre, Alberto Moravia and Simone... Read more »
Freedom to read advocates cheer decision in ‘PRH v. Gibson’ Aug 15 2025 Right to read advocates hailed a Florida court’s ringing defense of First Amendment rights this week. On August 13,... Read more »
Florida court upholds freedom to read in ‘PRH v. Gibson’ Aug 14 2025 In an order that sets a strong precedent for keeping books on public school library shelves, the U.S. District... Read more »