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One of the most interesting churches not just in the East Riding but the whole of Yorkshire, this Grade I listed structure dates from c. 1100AD and would have been among the earliest Norman churches ...

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There’s a famous two-decade-old Paris Review interview with Haruki Murakami in which he, one of the world’s most celebrated ...

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Geraldine Brooks’s Memorial Days interleaves splintery chapters describing the sudden death of her Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

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“Poetry is the art of compression, of saying in a few well-chosen words, enhanced with rhythm and musicality of language what might take many more words to express — far less memorably — in prose,” ...