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Last chance to enter! The 2025 Observer/ Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism closes soon

The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is open for submissions until 28 February

The Guardian - UK

17 writers who despised adaptations of their work: ‘If you like my stuff, don’t watch that movie’

From Truman Capote’s problem with Audrey Hepburn in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ to Lois Duncan’s very personal offence over ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ and Quentin Tarantino’s public beef with Oliver Stone, Annabel Nugent counts down 17 times writers hated adaptations of their work

The Independent UK

Dame Shirley Conran obituary

Bestselling author of Lace and Superwoman and women’s editor for the Daily Mail and the Observer

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Classical home listening: Sean Shibe; French music for two pianos – and Anthony Burgess’s guitar quartets

The star Scottish guitarist turns to South America; Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva play Poulenc and more; and the Mēla Guitar Quartet premiere works by the author of A Clockwork Orange

The Guardian - UK

Newly discovered string quartet by Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess to have premiere

The Manchester-born author was a frustrated composer who often wrote about music. Now his previously unknown work for strings will find an audience

The Guardian - UK

My, my! How Napoleon Bonaparte is still influencing pop culture more than 200 years after his death

In Ridley Scott’s 2023 epic, Joaquin Phoenix becomes the latest actor to portray Napoleon, joining an group that includes Marlon Brando, Danny DeVito and Rowan Atkinson. The tiny tyrant remains a subject of fascination (and mockery) on screen, writes Martin Chilton

The Independent UK

Sebastian Faulks on his futuristic 16th novel and rewriting 007: ‘I stopped watching Bond when Sean Connery left’

The ‘Birdsong’ author has struggled to shake off the ‘historical fiction’ label, but his latest novel, ‘The Seventh Son’, is set in a futuristic fertility clinic. He tells Claire Allfree about human evolution, his former life as the Indy’s first literary editor, and what he borrowed from Bond author Ian…

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Enter the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2024

The annual competition to discover outstanding new critical writing on the arts is now opened for submissions

The Guardian - UK

The novel explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world.

The Week

Robert Gottlieb obituary

American editor who worked with many celebrated authors including Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing and Joseph Heller

The Guardian - UK

Winner: Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism 2023 – En Liang Khong on Tanoa Sasraku

This year’s winning entry explores the work of the Plymouth-born artist who delves into the hillsides of the west country and beyond

The Guardian - UK

You need to watch the most disturbing sci-fi thriller ever made on Netflix ASAP

You'll never think about crime, punishment, and Gene Kelly the same way again.

Inverse

Anthony Burgess translation of Molière’s The Miser comes to light for first time

The A Clockwork Orange author’s translation – complete with recording – hailed as significant literary discovery

The Guardian - UK

Ian Rankin: ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a perfect gem of a story’

The crime writer on being fascinated by A Clockwork Orange, inspired by Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and taking comfort in Muriel Spark’s novel

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Circus of Dreams by John Walsh review – a 1980s literary love-in

The former Sunday Times journalist can’t contain his self-satisfaction in a humorous, passionate account of his boozy lunches with literature’s big beasts

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Stunning photos show freestyle jet skiers treating early risers to display near Blyth

Anthony Burgess and Farzad Takaloo travelled up to Northumberland to mee Blyth jet skiers and take on big waves triggered by recent storms

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