My earliest reading memoryI only realised how well I knew the Alfie stories by Shirley Hughes when I started reading them to my own children. Every time we read one now, I’m suddenly back... Read more »
Thirty-five thousand years ago, in the Ardèche region of France, Paleolithic artists drew a spectacular bestiary on the walls of the Chauvet cave. Their focus was apex predators, so there were lots of lions, as... Read more »
Paul Thomas Anderson has won his first Oscar, for best adapted screenplay for One Battle After Another. Also directed by Anderson, One Battle After Another is a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s... Read more »
Derek Owusu and Seán Hewitt are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize. Harriet Armstrong, Colwill Brown, Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Suzannah V Evans also made the shortlist... Read more »
The number of plays attributed to the 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd has more than doubled in a major new edition. The forthcoming second volume of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd makes... Read more »
Dream-Pedlary i. If there were dreams to sell.What would you buy?Some cost a passing bell;Some a light sigh,That shakes from Life’s fresh crownOnly a rose-leaf down.If there were dreams to sell,Merry and... Read more »
In a 1924 letter to André Gide, Thomas Mann said he would soon be sending along a copy of his new novel, The Magic Mountain. “But I assure you that I do not in... Read more »
Tobacco, swiss roll, Irish whiskey, Guinness and monkey nuts: that’s the diet followed by one of the foremost poets of the 20th century. Dylan Thomas’ grocery bill is among a trove of... Read more »
A prominent Canadian-American author, who has long claimed Indigenous ancestry and whose work exposed “the hard truths of the injustices of the Indigenous peoples of North America”, has learned from a genealogist... Read more »