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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

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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)

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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…

The Times of India

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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

Trying to be real in Uptown

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

Chicago Sun-Times

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

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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…

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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

The Guardian - UK

Toilets, towers and Tony Blair: the crazy world of cult film-maker John Smith

The director talks about his intellectual, political and hilarious body of work, as a retrospective is staged with contributions from his former students Carol Morley and Jarvis Cocker

Inverse

'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 4's T.S. Eliot quote. explained

'Rick and Morty' Season 6, Episode 4 explores the concept of a "Night Family," something that is uncannily similar to Apple TV+'s 'Severance.'

The Guardian - UK

Five men and one woman who took on impossible job – of poet laureate

Several of the poets appointed by, or inherited by the Queen, had to deal with public mockery. No wonder Philip Larkin turned down the role

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast); Teach Me a Lesson; Schools Apart and more

Shows on education range from the warmly comic to the thoughtfully investigative, while TS Eliot’s The Waste Land gets a centenary revival

The Conversation

The case of the acclaimed South African novel that 'borrows' from Samuel Beckett

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

The Conversation

Plagiarism, John Hughes’ The Dogs and the ethical responsibilities of the novelist

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

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