The author on the power of folktales, being inspired by Ulysses – and the book that every woman should read
My earliest reading memory
The summer my middle sister was born, my mum and I would walk to…
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The Guardian view on Homer: The Odyssey is more modern than we might like to think | Editorial ⊕⊕
The universal themes addressed by one of humanity’s greatest storytellers more than merit Hollywood box-office treatment
The Magasphere’s endless appetite for culture wars is wearily familiar. But who…
38 days ago
From Burma to Big Brother: George Orwell’s best books – ranked! ⊕⊕
From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?
Imagination was not George Orwell’s forte. In each novel the protagonist is to…
3 months ago
Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska review – the remarkable story of a wartime institution ⊕⊕
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From a haven for intellectuals fleeing Hitler to the HQ of the feared Abwehr, the changing fortunes of a Parisian icon
The word “hotel” is cognate with “hostel” and “hospital”, and for a few short yea…
4 months ago
Too many bro? Broaching the subject of men’s lapel messaging at the Oscars ⊖
All the talk on red carpet night was of leading guys such as Adrien Brody and Leonardo DiCaprio flashing the bling
While the eyes might be the window to the soul, lapels are certainly doing some talki…
7 months ago
From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers ⊖
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Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show au…
9 months ago
My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’ ⊕
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As a not-yet-out trans teen, The Sensual World – the singer’s rejection of masculine influence – felt like an invocation of everything I was feeling
It wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World…
11 months ago
James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different experience ○
It is more than a century since Joyce crossed Europe by rail but there is still inspiration to be found on the overland journey to Trieste
When James Joyce first travelled from Dublin to Trieste in 19…
12 months ago
‘City of singles’: cosmopolitan prewar Paris’s ‘crazy years’ brought to life ○
Database of 8m handwritten census entries paints portrait of city that was hub for intellectuals, artists and young, single people
In 1926, James Joyce was working on his novel Finnegans Wake while li…
13 months ago
Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? | Dermot Hodson ○
In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the city’s most famous fictional resident was as frustrated by its transport links in 1904 as many of us are today
Ireland’s planning body, An Bord Pleanála, will determine l…