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Featured Poem: Hamatreya
So it's my turn to recommend a poem and I choose 'Hamatreya' by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson is better known…
Author Readings and Workshops Near Liverpool
Manchester-based publisher Comma Press is promoting a new book of short stories entitled Elsewhere: Stories From Small Town Europe and…
Featured Poem: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
ReaderOnline contributor Siobhan Chapman has recently returned to teaching after a year's sabbatical to write a book. Judging by her…
The Reader 27 has landed!
In Issue 27, The Reader tries for happiness and we couldn't be more happy that it has arrived so we…
Featured Poem: Ode To Autumn
Thursday October 4 is National Poetry Day here in the UK and to mark the occasion we are going to…
James Ellroy on Dashiell Hammett
On Saturday The Guardian newspaper printed a superb piece by James Ellroy on crime writer and sometime Pinkerton detective Dashiell…
It’s Art, Stupid! Andrew Motion at the Sefton Festival of Literature
The Sefton Festival of Literature opened on Wednesday September 19 and closes with a performance by poet Jackie Kay at…
Recommended Reads: Black Swan Green
David Mitchell is surely one of the best British novelists writing today and his latest novel Black Swan Green strengthens…
Recommended Reads: Einstein, His Life and Universe
By Siobhan Chapman. Walter Isaacson. Einstein, His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Albert Einstein was an engaging and…
Neglected Books
One of the areas where The Reader magazine excels is in looking again at writing that would otherwise get lost…
V.S. Naipaul on Young People These Days
He's been everywhere the last week or so. V.S. Naipaul has a book to sell and he seems to think…
The Booker Prize: Those Readability Stats in Full
Over at One-Minute Book Reviews Janice Harayda has been having fun with Microsoft Word's readability stats feature. Sadly this amusing…
