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Cranford, Episode 3 Review
In her third contribution Clare Williams continues her series of reviews of the BBC's adaptation of Cranford. For those people…
Cranford: Episode 2 Review
Clare Williams brings us up to date in the second of her reviews of the BBC's drama series Cranford. Episode…
The Reader 28: Rising from the Depths
Issue 28 of The Reader magazine thumped onto the office doormat today (I'll be fine, really) and we could not…
Cranford: Sunday, 9PM, BBC1
Somehow this time of year always feels right for a good dramatic adaptation of a Victorian novel, just as it…
Twitterlit: First Lines of Books
Among writers of popular fiction it is widely believed that if book shop browsers are not hooked by the end…
BBC TV: Cranford
Just a heads up to remind all our readers that the first episode in the BBC's much anticipated five part…
Stubin’s Guide to Healthy Eating: Pickles
The Reader New York editor Enid 'Sparrow' Stubin on Pickles: ‘As far as Jewish cuisine goes, sour pickles are a…
NY Diary 1: Lint
Featuring Reader editor Philip Davis on 6th Avenue with our Spy from NY, Enid Stubin, she removing the lint from…
27 Links: Links from The Reader 27 on Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese
Josie Billington's biographical essay, A Place to Stand and Love In from issue 27 of The Reader magazine, explores the…
27 Links: Links from Reader 27 on Ian McEwan’s Saturday
Raymond Tallis's article on Ian McEwan's Saturday in issue 27 of The Reader magazine addresses the issue of implausibility in…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: A Question of Interpretation
Yesterday morning, Nicolette Jones chaired a riveting discussion between authors Blake Morrison and Jonathan Coe about the position of the…
Who Reads Doris Lessing?
In the few days since Doris Lessing was announced as the 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, book…
