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Who’s offended by Virginia Woolf?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe bust is a copy of Stephen Tomlin’s 1931 plaster study, now found at Charleston, East Sussex. Tomlin had to abandon the full sculpture. A plaque on...
‘I’m haunted by my mother’: The late Edna O’Brien, interviewed by the late Eileen Battersby
The Irish Times· 1 hour agoEdna O’Brien is a worrier; she has always been at the mercy of an active mind simultaneously engaged...
Edna O’Brien obituary: flamboyant, fearless, and outspoken Irish writer
The Irish Times· 22 hours agoThe Irish-born, London-based novelist, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter, Edna O’Brien...
Anne Enright on Edna O’Brien: Unyielding in how she lived, worked and believed
The Irish Times· 11 hours agoEdna O’Brien was a great Irish icon and in the afterglow of her long, productive and famous life, it...
There’s Nothing Wrong With Her describes the unique hell of long Covid
The Independent· 1 day agoTHE READING LIST: After writing a bestselling mystery novel, Kate Weinberg found herself in a...
Labour's anti-intellectual moment
The New Statesman· 5 days agoAlong with the show’s obligatory gifts of a Bible and the collected works of Shakespeare, Starmer was asked to bring one book of his choosing to his...
How Edna O'Brien's archives illuminate her work
RTÉ News· 22 hours agoThe archives allows us a glimpse into a writer’s workshop. There we see the immense diligence it takes to construct a novel; we also witness the many failures, the roads not taken, the breakdowns ...
Letter of the week: Humans vs resources
The New Statesman· 4 days agoIt is not clear to me what problem Paul Morland (Encounter, 12 July) is seeking to solve. The peak of the world’s population is expected at 10.3 billion...
