News and Updates

Here are some of our favourite articles and links from across the web in the last week or two: A…

The New York Times reports that the New Yorker magazine has appointed Irish poet Paul Muldoon as its poetry editor.…

An item on the radio this morning was discussing the security situation in Iraq and describing the ferocity and ruthlessness…

In the run-up to the publication of his book on Bernard Malamud Reader editor Philip Davis has been blogging for…

This astonishing short film in which Sylvia Plath reads her poem 'Daddy' comes as quite a surprise. Not only does…

The Reader is going to this year's Cheltenham Literature Festival to bring you news from the festival direct to this…

Helen Whitehead writes to tell us about an online writing course that she is running with fellow tutor Sharon Rundle.…

Running from Wednesday, 19th September until Sunday, 30th September, Sefton Festival for Literature 2007 has a programme appealing to anyone…

There's a lot of discussion in American book circles these days about the declining coverage of books in major newspapers,…

Back in 2000, when the world was young, Sarah Coley wrote an excellent review of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf…

September marks the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, notorious for being written on a single roll…

Jorge Luis Borges' story 'The Library of Babel' proposes a library so vast it contains all possible books, but is…