Literature
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Jamaican-British Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson Shares 2020 Literature Prize with Amanuel Asrat
Veteran Jamaican-British poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded this year’s PEN Pinter Prize with the judges having described him as a…
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Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small
A rolling incineration of large swathes of the continent, the sky itself seemed to have been on fire, from the…
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Nobel Prize in Literature won by American poet Louise Gluck
The prize was announced in Stockholm on Thursday by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. ABC News…
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Friday essay: The Female Eunuch at 50, Germaine Greer’s fearless, feminist masterpiece
The book inspired women to challenge the ties binding them to gender inequality and domestic servitude. It broke marriages, or…
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From the Archives, 1990: Australian literary giant Patrick White dies
Patrick White dies, aged 78; an era is over. Staff writers WA Today Patrick White, the author, died at his…
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Hilary Mantel ‘naturally disappointed’ by Booker Prize miss
The British novelist was a favourite to win the major literary prize – which she claimed with Wolf Hall in…
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Guide to the Classics: The Secret Garden and the healing power of nature
First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time…
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Elena Ferrante has a new novel, but is the fever still running high?
There are the sentences that never seem to end; the language charged with carnality; the Naples that is dark yet…
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The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi review – a painfully invisible existence
Akwaeke Emezi’s Women’s prize-longlisted debut Freshwater was narrated by the multiple selves inhabiting a young Nigerian woman who was born with “one foot on…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga – Booker Prize nominee arrested in Zimbabwe
Dangarembga, 61, and another protester were bundled into a police lorry while carrying placards. BBC The government has warned that…
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Publishers rush to fill demand as books on race and racism sell out amid protests
Bookshops have sold out of several titles on the topics, with publishers racing to reprint and order more stock in…
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A Soft Spot for Atheism
Atheism is too serious a business to be left to the unbelievers. Costica Bradatan Commonweal They are too much into…
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Collaborative Article – May 2020: On Loneliness
As we seek to forge and maintain human connection in a time of global disorder, Agora Dialogue is trialling a…
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The week’s best TV, film, books and music
Classic TV – Parks and Recreation BBC This brilliant sitcom has back in the news in recent weeks, after its…
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Morbid Symptoms (a crime novel)
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum…
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A beginner’s guide to reading and enjoying poetry
For most people, these occasions – as well as their schooldays – are the only times they encounter poetry. Andrew…
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