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Richard Ford: ‘I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere’

The Pulitzer prizewinning author on taking life lessons from Chekhov, warming to Woolf and reading Larkin on loop

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Iain Banks

He catapulted to fame with depraved, funny novel The Wasp Factory in 1984, but the much-loved Scottish writer had a parallel career as an influential sci-fi writer

The Guardian - UK

A visit to cat heaven

Fat Cat Rescue in Wadsworth provides a safe haven for hundreds of feral cats.

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The Anxiety of Influence: Harold Bloom's (not so) influential idea at 50

Joshua Cohen’s ribald campus novel The Netanyahus (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is set during the winter of 1959-60. It depicts Ben-Zion Netanyahu, father of the current Israeli Prime Minister, during an itinerant phase of his academic career.

The Conversation

Pulitzer winner Paul Muldoon to chair TS Eliot Prize 2023

Former TV and radio producer and TS Eliot Prize winner, Paul Muldoon is the Chair of Judges for TS Eliot Prize 2023. Other judges in the panel include Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul.

The Times of India

Solmaz Sharif: ‘I don’t shy away from hurting the reader’

The Iranian-American poet on puncturing comfort, staying an apostate and her teenage love of RL Stine

The Guardian - UK

Looking for something great to read? Here are 5 new books to tempt you

Your choices include novels, poetry and memoir.

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Tomás Nevinson by Javier Marías review – the final mystery

The last novel from the late Spanish author is a mesmerising addition to his world of spies and lies

The Guardian - UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Balladz by Sharon Olds; Material Properties by Jacob Polley; Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan; Brother Poem by Will Harris; Couplets by Maggie Millner

The Guardian - UK

Kim Jones brings Eliot’s The Waste Land to Dior’s 2023-24 menswear catwalk

Dior’s industrious designer finds inspiration in century-old modernist poem, as well as the fashion house’s own history

The Guardian - UK

TS Eliot Prize: Anthony Joseph is announced as this year’s winner

Joseph wins £25,000 for his ‘luminous collection’ Sonnets for Albert

The Independent UK

Anthony Joseph wins TS Eliot prize for ‘luminous’ poetry collection

Joseph takes £25,000 prize for Sonnets for Albert, which weighs the impact of growing up with a largely absent father

The Guardian - UK

The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis review - guided walk through loneliness and despair

OF course January is the cruellest month. As an old boss of mine used to say: “The grim reaper is on the downstroke JDQ.” Covid and influenza…

The National (Scotland)

Happy New Year Quotes: Classic inspirational quotes by famous authors

The new year is here! And the beginning of a new calendar year always signifies hope for the best. It is a time to leave behind the negativity and unmet dreams and look forward to newer beginnings. Interestingly, these feelings have been universal and many famous authors have beautifully expressed…

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Can you outwit Margaret Atwood? The bumper books quiz of 2022

Which author was this year elected to the US Senate? In what horror story does a vampire appear as a cat? Test your wits with questions set by authors

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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis review – a classic laid bare

TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation

The Guardian - UK

Dinner With Groucho review – table for two mismatched geniuses

Frank McGuinness conjures the bizarre but real encounter between TS Eliot and the Marx brother in a leaden piece a talented cast can’t save

Evening Standard

Dinner With Groucho at Arcola Theatre review: completely baffling

Staged with technical skill but there’s no life animating the dialogue of this opaque fantasy

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Trying to be real in Uptown

Poet Jeffrey McDaniel brings his raw truth to the Poetry Slam this Sunday.

Daily Mirror

Forgotten story of the BBC's first black radio producer and trailblazer Una Marson

Una Marson and her accolades have finally been reconigised as the BBC premiers a new documentary - Una Marson: Our lost Caribbean Voice - to remember an iconic but often overlooked woman in our history

The Guardian - UK

TS Eliot’s women: the unsung female voices of The Waste Land

As the epic poem turns 100, devotee Jude Rogers examines the work’s thrilling, intriguing women, including Emily Hale, Eliot’s first love, to whom he wrote more than 1,000 recently revealed letters

The Guardian - UK

TS Eliot’s Waste Land was a barren place. But at least a spirit of optimism still prevailed

A century on, the epic masterpiece speaks to today’s anxieties about loss of tradition

The Guardian - UK

Una Marson: Our Lost Caribbean Voice review – a beautiful, moving portrait of BBC’s first Black broadcaster

The extraordinary Jamaican poet, playwright, editor and producer became a radio sensation in the 1940s, but her name has been largely lost to history – an injustice this deft documentary is here to remedy

The Conversation

BBC at 100: a trusted international news source, but it's important to remember whose values it reflects

As the BBC turns 100 we should celebrate its extraordinary history as a public service broadcaster bringing news and other programming to audiences around the globe. In 2020-2021 the BBC announced that its World Service achieved its highest-ever audience, with an average of close to 500 million listeners globally each…

The Guardian - UK

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis – genesis of a masterpiece

Hollis brilliantly sifts through the tendrils of TS Eliot’s unhappiness and shows how, with help from friends, he broke through his tortured silence to create an era-defining poem

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