LITERATURE
April 2013
R.S. Thomas is frequently characterised as a misanthropic ogre. On the centenary of his birth, the publication of his humane Uncollected Poems belies this misplaced view
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April 2013
Two recently translated European novellas, by Sophie Divry and Brigit Vanderbeke, are wonderful examples of this short literary form
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April 2013
Revisiting Brideshead, we see that wine ministers to the sense of being as do few other things
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April 2013
The art of recording a writer’s career will have to be reinvented to survive in the internet era
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