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Featured Poem: Amy Lowell, ‘Carrefour’
This week's poem is selected by poet Rebecca Goss. The word 'carrefour' means crossroads, a heady, allegorical title, but we have…
Review: Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
Chris Pak was born and grew up in Hong Kong and is currently completing an MA in Science Fiction Studies…
Links We Liked for 18 June, 2008
Some links from way back when. I apologise for these being so old, but I've been too busy reading philosopher…
Recommended Reads: The Russian Jerusalem by Elaine Feinstein
Known as one of our greatest living poets, Elaine Feinstein is also a novelist, translator, screenwriter, playwright and biographer. It…
Featured Poem: George Herbert, ‘The Flower’
Issue 30 of The Reader magazine has rejuvenation as its theme and takes its title "I live and write" from…
Reader Poll: Classics on Richard and Judy
Before I start let’s just get something out of the way: The Richard and Judy Book Club is on the…
The Reader, Issue 30, “I live and write” now available
Readers will recognise more than a few names on the contents page in The Reader No. 30. By coincidence, they…
Event: The impact of German-language culture in the UK
How receptive is the British public to the history and culture of its close neighbours in German-speaking Europe? Come and…
More Kindle
Yesterday I wrote about how publishers are experiencing dramatic increases in sales of ebooks and how ebook readers such as…
Links We Liked for 4 June 2008
This week The Reader Online celebrates its first birthday. One of our earliest posts featured the startup DailyLit, which delivers…
Edge Hill Short Story Competition–Readers’ Prize
Get Into Reading manager Kate McDonnell writes with news of Get Into Reading's involvement with the 2008 Edge Hill Short…
Featured Poem: Emily Dickinson, ‘With a flower’
Emily Dickinson is one of the most popular and well known American poets, but also among the most difficult to…
