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Featured Poem: The Sun Rising
Today's featured poem is John Donne's 'The Sun Rising', which really needs no introduction other than to say that on…
Poetry Launch: Life Lines 2
Last night, amongst the hustle and bustle of London's Tottenham Court Road and Soho, the launch of Life Lines 2…
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…
Featured Anthology: Oxford Poets 2007
In a new feature at The Reader Online, we're going to be featuring a recently published poetry anthology, bringing you…
Recommended Reads Round-Up
The Reader magazine has always prided itself on being the magazine to turn to when you don't know what to…
The Man Booker 2007: Anne Enright’s The Gathering
As Anne Enright said in an interview shortly after winning the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, 'The…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Leaving the Writers’ Room
Lunchtime on Sunday and I am sitting at one of the small round tables in the Writers' Room having something…
Links We Liked for October 16, 2007
Blasphemy Confirmed. January Magazine has posted video evidence of Doris Lessing's stylish reaction to hearing the news, from reporters, that…
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…
Featured Poem: Ode to the West Wind
Autumn is making its presence felt: the leaves are turning, the nights are drawing in and the temperature is dropping.…
Cheltenham Literature Festival: Conflict and resolution
This is not to say that there have been enraged confrontations and then gracious reconciliations at the festival, rather that…
