On 28 July the Booker Prize reveals its 2026 longlist, the annual Booker Dozen of twelve or thirteen novels that will dominate literary conversation until…
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With its new winner, the Booker Prize champions plot over prose. Is this a needed revival of narrative or a loss for experimental fiction?
By Sara Noah There is a memorial plaque in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, mounted on a wall near the gates of George Heriot’s School. It honours…
By Tessa Nolan In September 1858, a 13-part essay series began appearing in the pages of the New York Atlas, a Sunday broadsheet. It ran…
By Sara Noah In October 2023, a group of fifteen people gathered on a Zoom call, took a collective breath, and read the final page…
By Tessa Nolan There is a prejudice so embedded in Western culture that most people never think to question it: the assumption that the ability…
The Elly Conway Deception: What the Argylle Pseudonym Reveals About Publishing and Celebrity Culture
By Sara Bright When The Telegraph unmasked the real authors behind the pseudonym Elly Conway on 2 February 2024, it detonated a publishing premise. The…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…