This week the Palestine Festival of Literature, known as Palfest, announced that over 1,000 writers have signed on to a literary boycott of Israel. In a public letter, these writers declared that ...
Han Kang, the South Korean winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, made her breakthrough in the English-speaking world with her first translated novel (her third in Korean), The Vegetarian.
A rich body of legend has gathered around the figure of J H Prynne. In Iain Sinclair’s novel Radon Daughters (1994) he becomes Simon Undark, ‘hermit and scribe, the conscience of England’, ‘famous for ...
Hampstead had become a bit of a repository for modernist houses at the time, a liberal enclave in London in which architects were allowed to experiment in a rather genteel, rather English way. Even ...