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The Guardian view on how culture is taking on tech: the ultimate handheld device

Editorial: Transcription, the winner of the Orwell prize for political fiction, and Toy Story 5 show life before smartphones and screen time

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3

Ben Lerner says novel is ‘not a political statement’ despite winning Best Political Fiction prize

‘But the question of how certain forms of media flatten or monetise our attention – I do think that’s political territory,’ said Lerner

The Independent UK · Jun 26

Transcription by Ben Lerner wins Orwell prize for political fiction

Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while Karen Bartlett wins the nonfiction prize for The Escape from Kabul

The Guardian - UK · Jun 25

England have stayed alive at Euro 2024 and avoided recklessness that might lead to disaster but it has been joyless and filled with fear and trepidation

Several big nations have taken a cautious approach to Euro 2024

FourFourTwo · Jul 9, 2024

The best recent poetry – review roundup

indiom by Daljit Nagra; The Lights by Ben Lerner; Isdal by Susannah Dickey; The Ferguson Report by Nicole Sealy; Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay; For the Unnamed by Fred D’Aguiar

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2023

‘Romance novels have been denigrated because they talk about female pleasure’: Emily Henry on Happy Place, BookTok and sex scenes

Emily Henry’s knowing romcoms have sold four million copies and turned her into a BookTok favourite. She talks to Amanda Whiting about her new novel ‘Happy Place’, her obsessive online fandom and why romance novels are ‘innately progressive’

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2023

Writing is a 'questionable business', but what to make of John Hughes, one of the most prolific plagiarists in literary history?

In June of last year, the Guardian revealed that John Hughes’ Miles Franklin-longlisted novel The Dogs contained material lifted from The Unwomanly Face of War, a book by Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. When approached about this, Hughes apologised for the transgression, describing the plagiarism as unintentional.

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2023