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Colm Tóibín’s tales of Ireland are already relics

Colm Tóibín is not a happy bunny in his fiction, to say the least, not one of the great lookers forward

Evening Standard

Words can’t save a life – but they can capture it. Debra Adelaide farewells friend Gabrielle Carey

Debra Adelaide’s new novel, When I Am Sixty-Four, is based on her lifelong friendship with the late Gabrielle Carey – a fellow author she first met in primary school, and bonded with over reading. Best known as the teenage author of Puberty Blues, Carey was also a lifelong literary scholar…

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‘Tastes of salt, smells of coffee’: why Trieste is one of Italy’s best food cities

The historic port is a cosmopolitan gateway to global flavours and traditions. And it’s barely on the tourist trail. Take a tour …

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From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked!

As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop

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From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers

Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show authors at their most vulnerable

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“Occasionally I've been worried that I've poisoned myself but it's always turned out fine”: We speak to the artist who has just made an album from dangerous plants

Oram Award-winning electronic artist Helen Anahita Wilson tells us how she generated the music for her new album from poisonous plants and hallucinogens

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Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland

Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells – an illuminated manuscript depicting the four gospels of the New Testament in Latin – was “the most purely Irish thing we have”.

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Steve Buscemi stunned audience by reading notoriously graphic love letter by James Joyce

At an erotic literary event, Steve Buscemi stunned a Brooklyn audience when he stepped to the podium and read aloud a notoriously graphic love letter by James Joyce.

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James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different experience

It is more than a century since Joyce crossed Europe by rail but there is still inspiration to be found on the overland journey to Trieste

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ChatGPT and hostel stays: How I aced solo travel with a baby

Kate Ivory’s daughter has seen more of Western Europe than most Brits do in a lifetime. Here she shares the highs and lows of their month-long Interrail adventure

Evening Standard

‘City of singles’: cosmopolitan prewar Paris’s ‘crazy years’ brought to life

Database of 8m handwritten census entries paints portrait of city that was hub for intellectuals, artists and young, single people

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Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that?

In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the city’s most famous fictional resident was as frustrated by its transport links in 1904 as many of us are today, says professor of political economy Dermot Hodson

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Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allure

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‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?

Its inspiration was Sydney Opera House and its paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming without fear of floaters

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Manifesto, theory, rant: Yumna Kassab’s ‘post-novels’ have a bit of everything

Yumna Kassab’s new book, The Theory of Everything, is not a typical novel. It is, its blurb declares, “a fictional theory, a rant, a manifesto […] five mini-novels or else five post-novels”.

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“She fell in love with Pink Floyd, The Beatles and David Bowie and combined them all in her neoclassical way”: Even though Kate Bush refused to produce Gavin Friday’s Virgin Prunes, he still loves her

Composer, actor and painter explains why her work is high art in the style of influential writer James Joyce

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When in Rome … go where the Romans go, not the tourist crowds

The Eternal City’s monuments and museums are busy at the best of times, but there remain myriad treasures to explore that are well off the beaten track

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‘People are rooting for the whale’: the strange American tradition of Moby-Dick reading marathons

For decades, diehard fans have joined together to read Herman Melville’s 600-page novel aloud in exotic locations

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BBCNOW/Paterson/Wills review – from Joyce’s muse to Point Reyes’s whirling birds

Simon Wills’s new concertante ballet, premiered here, proved engaging but too discursive in a concert that also featured Gabriella Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails and Ives’ first symphony

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My wife glazes over when I talk about my writing. How can I come to terms with her indifference?

Your persona as an author is in the public domain, so perhaps your wife wants to keep the private you to herself

The Guardian - UK

William Boyd: ‘Fantasy is a genre that I cannot abide any more’

The novelist on why he can’t read JRR Tolkien anymore, being hooked on Muriel Spark and obsessed with James Joyce

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This IG Page Shares Funny Literary Memes, And Here Are 97 To Make The Biggest Book Nerds Laugh

If you like the smell of new and old books and the sound of pages turning, this list might be just for you! The post This IG Page Shares Funny Literary Memes, And Here Are 97 To Make The Biggest Book Nerds Laugh first appeared on Bored Panda.

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James Joyce’s glorious lists and pop’s place at the Proms

Letters: Mary Adams says nobody compiled lists in literature quite like the Irish novelist. Plus a letter from Dr Richard Carter

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Ferdia Lennon: ‘I was tired of Merchant Ivory accents’

The recent winner of the Waterstones debut fiction prize on literary friendships, the lucidity of Georges Simenon and Irish writing’s debt to the financial crash

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Liars by Sarah Manguso review – searing tale of a toxic marriage

This compulsive, claustrophobic account of a bad relationship becomes starved of oxygen in the same way the narrator is

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