The TelegraphPoetry Poem of the week: Epigram 28 (After Callimachus) by Stephanie Burt The Telegraph - Tristram Fane SaundersThis week's poem A pub good quiz question for shy, bookish types: who invented the library catalogue? The best answer is probably Callimachus. Born around 310BC, in Cyrene, on the north coast of Libya,...
The TelegraphShirley Jackson Madness, gaslighting and abuse: the dark story behind Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman The Telegraph - Jake KerridgeA new film about the American novelist goes looking for ghosts in all the wrong places – the facts are stranger than fiction The macabre ingenuity of Shirley Jackson was not restricted to her fiction....
The Telegraph20th Century Between the Covers by Jilly Cooper review: darker and sadder than any of her bonkalicious novels The Telegraph - Tanya GoldJilly Cooper's collected journalism proves that she was the pioneer of confessional newspaper columns in the 1970s I have read all of Jilly Cooper’s novels, and I have been on the now-dormant “Jillywood”...
The TelegraphUnited States The Silence by Don DeLillo, review: an American great with nothing left to say The Telegraph - Cal Revely-CalderThe revered novelist’s 18th book, a tale of the electronic nightmares of modern life, is set in 2022 – yet somehow manages to feel dated The vices of modern life are not to Don DeLillo’s taste. In a recent...
The TelegraphBooks If Sky can take books seriously, why is the BBC scared of intelligent viewers? The TelegraphBook clubs have become increasingly popular in recent years, and we authors are grateful for them. I’m just as happy to speak to a room of 10 women – and it is more often than not women rather than men,...
