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17/03/202218/08/2023James Porteous

Obituary: Hugh O’Shaughnessy – Acclaimed foreign correspondent  (87) (2022)

Fans leave tokens at Jack Kerouac’s gravesite in Lowell’s Edson Cemetery.PATRICIA HARRIS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE/PATRICIA HARRIS
13/03/202213/03/2022James Porteous

Jack Kerouac’s hometown celebrates the centennial of his birth

07/12/202107/12/2021James Porteous

Making sense of Hannah Arendt

01/12/202101/12/2021James Porteous

Obituary: Marie-Claire Blais – Author (82)

Credit:Lily Snowden-Fine
21/10/202121/10/2021James Porteous

Review: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather (1913)

04/10/202106/12/2022James Porteous

Watch: Anthony Burgess (documentary)

Gertrude Stein, 1934. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten.
02/08/202102/08/2021James Porteous

Gertrude Stein’s memoir of the ‘lost generation’

(Image credit: Alamy)
31/07/202131/07/2021James Porteous

Sylvia Plath: Will the poet always be defined by her death?

Title: Anti-Vietnam War placards surround Toronto’s war memorial in 1969. Photographer: Reg. Innell Date: April 6, 1969
28/07/202119/03/2022James Porteous

Excerpt: The Vietnam War

William F. Nolan and Ray Bradbury
20/07/202120/07/2021James Porteous

Obituary: William F. Nolan – Prolific SciFi Writer (Logan’s Run) (93)

12/07/202112/07/2021James Porteous

Obituary: Athan Theoharis, Used FOIA to reveal F.B.I. Abuses (84)

Haunani-Kay Trask in an undated photo. As a professor, poet and activist, she pushed for the recognition of Hawaii’s Indigenous people. “I am not soft, I am not sweet, and I do not want any more tourists in Hawaii,” she said.Credit...Kapulani Landgraf
10/07/202115/08/2023James Porteous

Obituary: Haunani-Kay Trask – Hawai’ian poet, activist (71)(2021)

John Sacret Young
26/06/202126/06/2021James Porteous

Obituary: John Sacret Young, ‘China Beach’ co-creator and ‘West Wing’ writer (75)

The anthology celebrates the "colourful lives" of Kurdish women, says editor Houzan Mahmoud (AFP/Delil Souleiman)
18/06/202124/08/2021James Porteous

Poets, fighters and dreamers: Kurdish women tell their own stories a new collection

Cover The Fake Empire
18/05/202103/04/2022James Porteous

The Fake Empire

03/05/202122/05/2021James Porteous

Stephen Fry: You Have No Free Will

“I don’t believe any of you have ever read PARADISE LOST, and you don’t want to. That’s something that you just want to take on trust. It’s a classic, just as Professor Winchester says, and it meets his definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
”– Mark Twain. “The Disappearance of Literature” speech, 20 November 1900. (Full Text of Mark Twain Speeches)
23/04/202124/08/2021James Porteous

John Milton sells the copyright to Paradise Lost for £10 (1667)

18/04/202119/04/2021James Porteous

Book: Billy Wilder: From poor Austrian journalist to Hollywood superstar

04/04/202104/04/2021James Porteous

Read: Rickie Lee Jones – Chronicles of an American Troubadour

02/04/202102/04/2021James Porteous

Sharon Stone: Dangerous, alluring and misunderstood?

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