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I have just (reluctantly) returned from Venice and although my body is back in England, my spirit has stayed there.…

Tyler Meier has posted an interesting piece on the Kenyon Review blog about figurative language and its role in making…

Carbon offsetting is all the rage at the moment. Take a short flight somewhere warm for some well-earned beach time…

by Angela Macmillan One of the great things about the Internet is the wealth of material that would never see…

Jane Davis writes to point out that Liverpool poet Eleanor Rees has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best…

Philip Davis, editor of The Reader writes to say that Ian MacMillan, poet, performer and broadcaster is to become a…

Let me confess. I love libraries. I love almost everything about them, from the faint smell of dust to the…

Today marks the 800th anniversary of Liverpool's town charter and publisher Capsica is celebrating the event by giving away the…

Writer and editor Helen Tookey is already predicting the start of autumn and the approach of winter and to make…

Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote is a new book by Jill Liddington, about the forgotten suffragettes across the…

As of today The Reader has a new website, which includes news and information about the magazine, about Reader community…

I've been away on a Scottish island odyssey for the last couple of weeks, but The Reader's flock of Internet…