The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of their prestigious literary award during their annual ceremony on ...

A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and ...

A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar’s novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by ...

To right away avoid being depressing, and because beginnings are important, I’ll begin with a poem by the Roman poet Catullus, who lived in the first century BC and died at the age of thirty. He was ...

This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like shapes. I like organising them. But because of recent neurological changes in my ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

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We are delighted to be working with the Look North Festival to host a a very special poetry reading focused on Ciaran Carson's final collection, 'Still Life'. Still Life is a truly remarkable ...

Georgia’s castaway became Miami’s treasure, and Carson Beck's antihero billing suits "the U." And if we allow ourselves to stop seeing Carson Beck in a black hat, maybe we’ll recognize this ...

This week’s reviews range from Anne Tyler’s latest romantic novel ... as Hetta Howes shows through her portraits of four women in particular: poet Marie de France, mystic Julian of Norwich ...