The 21st of February is International Mother Language Day – the most celebrated day worldwide for languages. Grimly, this day also poses a strange paradox – a day that reminds ...
Eleanor Franzén is a lit fest sceptic. So what happened when she attended her first?
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The last time I wrote, my uncle was dying.
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It is spring, and the cherry trees are flowering. It’s the wrong time of year for dying.
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Given the amount of critical coverage of the Baileys Prize for Fiction in recent years, the response to this year’s shortlist has been somewhat muted. Which is surprising, writes Eleanor ...
Given the amount of critical coverage of the Baileys Prize for Fiction in recent years, the response to this year’s shortlist has been somewhat muted. Which is surprising, writes Eleanor ...
Hubert, a graphic novel by Belgium’s Ben Gijsemans, depicts a lonely human finding solace in art but unable to connect to another human, even one as lonely as he is. ...
In the first of a new column dedicated to her thoughts on culture, Eleanor Franzén looks at how women who write about war invite scorn from their male colleagues. ...
