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Obituary: Leopold Abse
Obituary: Backbench social reformer and writer with a Freudian view of the world Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:10 GMT
Obituary: Backbench social reformer and writer with a Freudian view of the world Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:10 GMT
Jessica Reed: My French translations of Enid Blyton neglected some vital information
Jessica Reed: As a child, I loved Enid Blyton's books. But it's only now I realise that the French translations neglected some vital information??? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:00:02 GMT
Jessica Reed: As a child, I loved Enid Blyton's books. But it's only now I realise that the French translations neglected some vital information??? Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:00:02 GMT
Inaugural Edwin Morgan poetry prize awarded
Cambridge University graduate Kate Miller has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for her poem After the Ban Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:25:56 GMT
Cambridge University graduate Kate Miller has won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition for her poem After the Ban Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:25:56 GMT
Fred d'Aguiar's poetry workshop
The idea of revision presupposes a vision, an original which enables the return visit. Poets faced with a prodigious library of forebears, continue precisely because they see opportunities for further exploration of ideas and emotions touched on by previous books. The Guyanese writer, Wilson Harris, characterises this process of return to an unfinished legacy as a creative act of engaging with infinity, of never accomplishing a satisfactory end because the engagement requires a continuous assessment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:12:17 GMT
The idea of revision presupposes a vision, an original which enables the return visit. Poets faced with a prodigious library of forebears, continue precisely because they see opportunities for further exploration of ideas and emotions touched on by previous books. The Guyanese writer, Wilson Harris, characterises this process of return to an unfinished legacy as a creative act of engaging with infinity, of never accomplishing a satisfactory end because the engagement requires a continuous assessment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:12:17 GMT
Mahmoud Darwish's translator wins prize
The translator of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's collection The Butterfly's Burden has won the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for literary translation from Arabic. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:23 GMT
The translator of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's collection The Butterfly's Burden has won the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for literary translation from Arabic. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:23 GMT
Lucy Mangan celebrates the literary talents of Enid Blyton
Lucy Mangan says hurrah for the 'nanny-narrator' who introduced her and countless others to the joys of reading Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:07:07 GMT
Lucy Mangan says hurrah for the 'nanny-narrator' who introduced her and countless others to the joys of reading Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:07:07 GMT
Stuart Jeffries: Novels that caught the spirit of previous eras
Stuart Jeffries picks the books that defined an era Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:07:07 GMT
Stuart Jeffries picks the books that defined an era Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:07:07 GMT
Linda Grant speaks to Boris Johnson's sister about the lives of the new Tories
Linda Grant: You will not find anywhere else a more accurate and detailed study of the coming Cameronian right Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:05:23 GMT
Linda Grant: You will not find anywhere else a more accurate and detailed study of the coming Cameronian right Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:05:23 GMT
US: Wanted: people to sign books for lazy authors
Ad on Craigslist looks for crew of 14 to do blitz of false autographs for books Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:03:29 GMT
Ad on Craigslist looks for crew of 14 to do blitz of false autographs for books Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:03:29 GMT
Editorial: In praise of ... Dennis the Menace
Editorial: It is easy to forget that youthful rebellion can also be a positive and lovable thing Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:06:46 GMT
Editorial: It is easy to forget that youthful rebellion can also be a positive and lovable thing Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:06:46 GMT
Obituary: Felicity Ashbee
Obituary: Keeper of her family's links to the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th century Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:07:07 GMT
Obituary: Keeper of her family's links to the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th century Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:07:07 GMT
US web advert requests services of fake autograph signers
The advert says it is looking for 14 people to sign on behalf of two unnamed co-authors of a newly released book Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:41:00 GMT
The advert says it is looking for 14 people to sign on behalf of two unnamed co-authors of a newly released book Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:41:00 GMT
Eli Gottlieb's top 10 scenes from the battle of the sexes
From Ernest Hemingway to Ian McEwan, novelist Eli Gottlieb picks the fieriest scenes from the eternal conflict Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:51:52 GMT
From Ernest Hemingway to Ian McEwan, novelist Eli Gottlieb picks the fieriest scenes from the eternal conflict Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:51:52 GMT
'Literary tragedy' of Bulwer-Lytton's dark and stormy night under debate
The great-great-great grandson of the much-maligned author Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton is to take part in a debate to defend his ancestor's writing, which is celebrated in a contest to find the first line to the worst possible novel Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:08:03 GMT
The great-great-great grandson of the much-maligned author Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton is to take part in a debate to defend his ancestor's writing, which is celebrated in a contest to find the first line to the worst possible novel Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:08:03 GMT
Wyndham Lewis comes back into favour, and print
The modernist pioneer, long ost racised for his Nazi sympathies, is to have many of his most important works republished Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:47:15 GMT
The modernist pioneer, long ost racised for his Nazi sympathies, is to have many of his most important works republished Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:47:15 GMT
Telegraph Arts | Books
Review: Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese
Simon Ings samples science at its most surreal Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Simon Ings samples science at its most surreal Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters ed by John Coldstream
Dirk Bogarde's off-screen life was all about new roles too, says Philip Hoare Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Dirk Bogarde's off-screen life was all about new roles too, says Philip Hoare Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
How The Good Soldier got its name
Gary Dexter investigates The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Gary Dexter investigates The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Paperback choice
India After Gandhi; Vision Of Flight; Smoke In The Valley; Buda's Wagon, Pontoon; Tree Of Smoke Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
India After Gandhi; Vision Of Flight; Smoke In The Valley; Buda's Wagon, Pontoon; Tree Of Smoke Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: The Enemy at the Gate by Andrew Wheatcroft
Just how distant in the past was the Siege of Vienna? wonders Noel Malcolm Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Just how distant in the past was the Siege of Vienna? wonders Noel Malcolm Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel ed by Tim Whitmarsh
Sex, shopping, love and violence - it's all classical fictional fare, says Tibor Fischer Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Sex, shopping, love and violence - it's all classical fictional fare, says Tibor Fischer Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Tim Parks: headhunters, pianists - we're all the same
Anthropology is a big influence on Tim Parks. He tells Helen Brown why Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Anthropology is a big influence on Tim Parks. He tells Helen Brown why Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
Cressida Connolly enjoys the fifth novel of an 'unshowy' writer Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Cressida Connolly enjoys the fifth novel of an 'unshowy' writer Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Pick of the paperbacks
God's Architect; Smoke in the Valley; Pistols at Dawn; The Bad Girl; The Importance of Music to Girls; Divisadero; The Taxi Queue Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
God's Architect; Smoke in the Valley; Pistols at Dawn; The Bad Girl; The Importance of Music to Girls; Divisadero; The Taxi Queue Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: Lush Life by Richard Price
A brilliant novel about life and death in New York demonstrates the power of compassion, says Lionel Shriver Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
A brilliant novel about life and death in New York demonstrates the power of compassion, says Lionel Shriver Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Firmin: when all else fails, wait for your rat
Tim Martin meets the author of an unlikely literary success story. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Tim Martin meets the author of an unlikely literary success story. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: The Assassin's Song by M G Vassanji
A novel about Indian migration is strengthened by the spiritual questing at its heart, says Sameer Rahim Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
A novel about Indian migration is strengthened by the spiritual questing at its heart, says Sameer Rahim Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: music's rebellion
The cause of a great writer gave leading Russian musicaians an outlet for dissent, recalls Ismene Brown. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
The cause of a great writer gave leading Russian musicaians an outlet for dissent, recalls Ismene Brown. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: Waiter Rant by A Waiter
Paul Levy looks behind the scenes of eating out Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Paul Levy looks behind the scenes of eating out Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks
Jane Shilling on a novel built on the weakness of language Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Jane Shilling on a novel built on the weakness of language Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
Review: The Prosecution of George W Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
A diatribe about the US president crumbles under its own ferocity, says Sadakat Kadri Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
A diatribe about the US president crumbles under its own ferocity, says Sadakat Kadri Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT
