Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

BIZARRE: Faber person - What They Never Told You

Judges announced for The Conversation Prize for writers 2026

The Conversation, Curtis Brown and Faber are pleased to announce our three judges for The Conversation Prize for writers 2026.

The Conversation

‘Spider-Noir’ Ending, Explained: Does Ben Reilly Lose His Powers?

Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir wraps up its first season with a shocking twist.

Bored Panda

Spider-Noir ending explained: Who dies? Will there be a season 2?

A spoilery breakdown of Spider-Noir episode 8

Total Film

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Sylvia Plath’s poetry writing must-have? Stolen pink paper

BOOKS: On stolen pink paper from the college where she taught, Sylvia Plath wrote some of the greatest poems in the English language. Now a landmark publication collects all of her poems together for the first time, writes Jessie Thompson – but more could still surface

The Independent UK

Mark Gerson obituary

Photographer whose perceptive portraits of writers included well-known images of Evelyn Waugh, Doris Lessing and Faber poets of the 1960s

The Guardian - UK

Jan Morris by Sara Wheeler review – masterly account of a flawed figure

The journalistic adventurer and trans trailblazer is revealed as brilliant, prolific and deeply selfish

The Guardian - UK

Beats the doomscroll! The best analogue Christmas gifts in the UK

These old-school presents, from Polaroid cameras to poetry diaries, are the ultimate antidote to digital overload

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes to the stage with a glorious intensity of purpose

The idea of the titular Crow in Ted Hughes’ poems is wild, untameable and irreducible to words. In an early poem in the sequence, words come at Crow from all angles but he just ignores them. Finally, “Words retreated, suddenly afraid / Into the skull of a dead jester /…

The Conversation

Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Towards a Principled Approach

This book demonstrates that, with few exceptions, the ECtHR's general approach to hate speech has been overly expansive, often undervaluing… The post Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Towards a Principled Approach appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Article 17, Memory Politics, and the ECtHR's Selective Silencing

In this fourth guest entry on The Volokh Conspiracy, I examine a domain where the European Court of Human Rights… The post Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights: Article 17, Memory Politics, and the ECtHR's Selective Silencing appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Charles Chadwick obituary

Other lives: British Council officer who had his first novel published at the age of 73, three decades after he had written the manuscript

The Guardian - UK

West Virginia court declines to answer whether opioids distribution can cause public nuisance

West Virginia’s Supreme Court has declined to answer a question in a landmark lawsuit over whether the distribution of opioids can cause a public nuisance

The Independent UK

‘How can one day be so voluminous?’: the Danish author who has written her own version of Groundhog Day

Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International Booker

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen on 10 things that changed his life

THE Sunday National spoke with Edinburgh Makar and poet Michael Pedersen on the 10 things that changed his life...

The National (Scotland)

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Convicting the innocent: how a rotten system ensures miscarriages of justice will continue

The following story is the winner of The Conversation Prize for writers, a competition run in partnership with Faber and Curtis Brown. Read more about the competition here.

The Independent UK

The 20 best books of the year, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: Our chief books critic Martin Chilton chooses his very best reads of the year, from state-of-the-nation novels to surprising memoirs

The Independent UK

How I learnt to love the box-office flop

IN FOCUS: The stories behind Hollywood’s most memorable flops are often filled with juicy drama, and it’s why we should treat the ‘Joker 2’s of the world with a bit more respect, writes Tim Robey

The Guardian - UK

The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade review – comic novel or conceptual art project?

The author’s alter ego is on a quest to uncover the life and work of his playwright idol in this whimsical debut

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Three judges announced for The Conversation Prize for writers

The Conversation UK, Curtis Brown and Faber are pleased to announce our three judges for The Conversation Prize for writers: Miriam Frankel, senior science editor at The Conversation UK, Priya Atwal, historian, broadcaster and community history fellow at the University of Oxford, and Alice Hunt, professor of early modern literature…

The Independent UK

Wendy Cope: ‘When people rudely ask the secret to getting poems published? Get better at writing’

The ‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’ poet shares the book that surprised her the most, the best thing a reader ever said to her, and the few films she thinks are – almost – better than the book

The Independent UK

Sally Rooney is her own harshest critic – but that could be a good thing

The release of the Irish author’s latest novel, ‘Intermezzo’, is one of the biggest literary events of 2024, but Rooney is a writer who seems increasingly ill at ease with her ‘voice of a generation’ status, says Katie Rosseinsky

The Guardian - UK

Lord of the Flies at 70: how a classic was reimagined as a graphic novel

Dutch illustrator Aimée de Jongh talks about turning William Golding’s haunting novel into a visual artwork, while the author’s daughter and others reflect on its evolving message of humanity

iMore

Logitech is working on a mouse that could last forever, finally letting you ditch the Magic Mouse for good

In an episode of The Verge's Decoder podcast, Logitech's CEO hinted at a future mouse that could last forever. It would be more expensive but would let you ditch the Magic Mouse.

Wallpaper

From Tangerine Dream to cult PlayStation hits, eight books chronicling the art of noise and play

We explore eight titles that get under the skin of music history, technological evolution and the art and experience of digital culture

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley; Death in the Air by Ram Murali; The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal; French Windows by Antoine Laurain; The Man in Black & Other Stories by Elly Griffiths

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the University of Oxford

189 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.