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Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing on Breaking Free from the Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certa...

Short story: The man next door, by Elspeth Sandys

AfD has achieved the best result of a far-right German party since WW2 The post

A SMALL AND QUIET LIGHT Orange Tree, Richmond

      Twelve years ago, Priyanga Burford came upon an unusual, striking story that moved her to admiration and fellowship: Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, like her half-Indian, was one o...

One summer, a door – and then books, and then a new world – opened

Miss Louise lived in a big stone Tudor, covered with ivy. Inside that house was a library – and a lifelong gift.

Dorothy

Christine Nöstlinger: Die Kraft einfacher Worte

Christine Nöstlinger nahm jeden Menschen ernst, auch die Kleinsten. Die Schauspielerin Ursula Strauss über die Wucht einer unverschnörkelten Sprache

Queen reflects on reading 'forbidden' Lady Chatterley's Lover under the pillow

In BBC documentary The Book That Changed My Life, the Queen speaks about memorable moments in her own reading.

Eight Books That Illuminate the Brilliance and Biases of the Nobel Prize

Works by Ishiguro, Wiesel and Feynman show the range of achievement the honor has recognized, while other selections confront the prize's politics and critique the selection commit...

WILLESDEN, 1976: the striking Saris

plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose...

Dorothy Whipple: The 'Forgotten' 20th Century Author Austen Fans Will Love

Though I think Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell deserves more love, I have to concede she’s not exactly obscure: her work was on my university curriculum, and her novel North &...

Quote of the day by Judi Dench

Judi Dench expresses a profound belief in confronting harsh realities rather than seeking comfort. This notion, explored through her character in 'Notes on a Scandal', reflects a t...

The Road to Wigan Pier [or, To the Rainbow’s End]

No politics is the general rule,...

The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca

The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeperThe rollcall of notable novel...

Der Hausbesuch: Auf der Flucht

Elke Schlegel wollte ihr eigenes Leben leben. Aber in der DDR wurde schon der Wunsch zu einem Verbrechen. Mit Haft und Folter sollte sie büßen. mehr...

AK Blakemore: ‘The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was extremely silly and bad’

The poet and author on F Scott Fitzgerald’s perfect novel, losing faith in Ernest Hemingway – and the recent debut that blew her awayMy earliest reading memory Lynley Dodd’s Hairy...