George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance
Virgina Woolf declared Middlemarch “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. He…
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for orzo with peas, broad beans, asparagus, parmesan and lemon | A kitchen in Rome ⊕
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A deliciously rustic, risotto-style pasta using seasonal spring veg and finished with butter, parmesan and lemon zest
I am in more or less the same position as with last week’s recipe, only this time …
65 days ago
Debt is psychological torment: I've seen it end marriages, cause breakdowns and break my patients, says DR MAX PEMBERTON. But there is a way out - and it's so powerful... ○
T.S. Eliot was right, April is a cruel month. The daffodils are out, the clocks have gone forward and, theoretically, spring should feel like a fresh start.
3 months ago
‘The most quietly romantic town we have ever visited’ – the enduring charm of Chiavenna, Italy ⊕⊕
Writers from George Eliot to Goethe put this Lombardy town on the map, then it fell out of fashion. Today it makes a picture-perfect alternative to the Italian lakes
The ancient settlement of Chiavenn…
5 months ago
The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers review – the midlife adultery story our generation deserves ⊕
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This is a witty takedown of insufferable millennial New Yorkers who have managed to ruin even sex
In Erin Somers’s The Ten Year Affair, Cora, a millennial mother, craves a bygone kind of passion from …
7 months ago
Joelle Taylor: ‘I picked up The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a swoon of nine-year-old despair’ ⊕
The poet and playwright on queer classics, cinematic TS Eliot and the comforts of a ghost story
My earliest reading memory
I was around five when my mum first pulled out Clement C Moore’s The Night Bef…
8 months ago
‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival ⊖
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Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappe…
13 months ago
Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt review – an exquisite tale of first love ○
The poet’s debut novel is a transcendent portrait of gay desire that pays homage to the English literary tradition
Seán Hewitt, the author of two acclaimed poetry collections and an equally acclaimed…
15 months ago
Europe is running out of hope Trump is still open to persuasion over Ukraine ○
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Where the US president sees a convivial leader an ocean away, Europeans see a tyrant on its borders breaking all agreements
In the Four Quartets TS Eliot wrote “humankind cannot bear very much reality…
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