JD Salinger’s wry, subversive classic inspired novelist Joseph O’Connor to be a writer. He reflects on why this story of a disaffected teenager remains as fresh and transgressive as ever
In 1981, when…
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Jailing children does not make us safer – we need to get rid of this Dickensian delusion | Kirsty Brimelow ⊖⊖
We have a Victorian attitude to child offenders. It is harmful to them – and, when they reoffend, damaging to everyone
Kirsty Brimelow KC is chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales
It is said tha…
52 days ago
Rivals’ Rutshire – a place where modern Britain’s brutal divisions disappear in a cloud of sex | Jess Cartner-Morley ⊕
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As the second series of the Jilly Cooper adaptation climaxes, we can be thankful that quality TV doesn’t always have to be bleak and stressful
For Jilly Cooper devotees – a motley band that unites me …
72 days ago
Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list ⊕
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Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights; Ulysses or Catch-22 … Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide
• See the full list here
As Stephen King points out, compiling…
88 days ago
Mission accomplished as king’s speech to Congress goes down a storm ⊕
Charles quoted Wilde and Dickens in measured masterclass – and no tirade as yet from mad monarch in White House
A flick of Oscar Wilde here, a nod to Henry Kissinger there, a sprinkling of Charles Dic…
4 months ago
Head coach Dickens leaves Newcastle Red Bulls ○
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Head coach Alan Dickens leaves Newcastle Red Bulls as former Wales fly-half Stephen Jones takes over for the rest of the season.
Rare items of Charles Dickens’ clothing to go on display in London ⊖
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Exhibition includes linen shirt collar from when author suffered a fatal stroke along with other personal items
Rare surviving items of Charles Dickens’ clothing, including the linen shirt collar worn…
5 months ago
Susan Choi: ‘For so long I associated Dickens with unbearable Christmas TV specials’ ⊕
The Booker-shortlisted novelist on the seismic effect of Sigrid Nunez, and wanting to write like Virginia Woolf
My earliest reading memory
Asking my mom if she could stop reading my bedtime book to m…
7 months ago
Brits think Father Christmas is a lefty who would vote GREEN - and Dickens' festive miser Ebeneezer Scrooge would vote Reform, poll finds ⊕
Santa was seen as most likely to back Zack Polanski's party if he backs anyone at the next election, in a poll by YouGov.
8 months ago
Christmas Karma review – Dickens adaptation has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog ⊖
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Gurinder Chadha’s leaden update of the hardy seasonal chestnut with Kunal Nayyar is joyless and nausea-inducing
Keen though I always am to indulge any and every new riff on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol…