Two new things:
An essay on @AmitChaudhuri's beautiful novel"The Immortals" in Essays in Criticism (OA)
https://t.co/llc4GsizEL
And a short story (sort of about Jibanananda Das) in @WasafiriMag
https://t.co/S6eLRt1typ
https://t.co/PdLiT8NTvt
Lore Segal, who died on Monday, at the age of 96, published her first short story in The New Yorker in 1961, and her final one two weeks ago, some 63 years later. https://t.co/pMVZSuRL7X
Lore Segal's late, Manhattan stories have been appearing for a few years now. The one in the current @NewYorker reads like a summation. It's extraordinary, and hearing her reading it in her own voice is magical.
https://t.co/QiGT6Vl1VT
We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931–2024). In memory of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.
https://t.co/1G1Qgtss2C
A cultural history of twentieth-century Britain might fittingly end with a chapter on Caroline Aherne. She was a genius and this is a beautiful, loving portrait.
@shattenstone@guardianfilm
https://t.co/YppE1nBCw6
"The great British movie artist of working class Catholic experience and gay identity ... with a voice that might have belonged to a matinee idol."
Alongside Distant Voices etc, I have a particular soft spot for his version of Rattigan's Deep Blue Sea.
https://t.co/rdroBdB9Eo
One of my favourite books of all time. I remember reading it in my kitchen as a teenager. Every time I tried to write about anything for about fifteen years afterwards I had its "we..." narrative voice somewhere in my ear.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides, which we first published as a short story 3 years before the book materialized.
To mark the occasion, we’re unlocking the original story from our archive.
https://t.co/ba51zHDrBT
"It can take days to recover and collect oneself from the experience of reading"
Highly entertaining interview with Ken Ramchand, one of the great originals...
https://t.co/Yx9gA2nzBc