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Winter Blues
Writer and editor Helen Tookey is already predicting the start of autumn and the approach of winter and to make…
Rebel Girls
Rebel Girls: their fight for the vote is a new book by Jill Liddington, about the forgotten suffragettes across the…
The All-new Reader Website
As of today The Reader has a new website, which includes news and information about the magazine, about Reader community…
Links we liked for August 23
I've been away on a Scottish island odyssey for the last couple of weeks, but The Reader's flock of Internet…
Reading Pillow
With time on her hands now she has handed the editorship of The Reader over to husband Philip Davis, Jane…
Free Thinking
BBC Radio 3 & Radio Merseyside’s Free Thinking Festival returns to Liverpool Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio…
Romanian Summer Diary 6
Saturday 4th August – Things I have seen in Romania A cow grazing by a brand new glass-plate…
William Faulkner and the End of Man
Like James Joyce, William Faulkner has an unjust reputation as a 'difficult' writer. Perhaps for this reason he is relatively…
Upcoming TV Adaptations
Angela Macmillan made contact to point out that the BBC is working on several interesting-looking TV adaptations of eighteenth and…
Booker Prize longlist announced
Judges have announced the titles longlisted for this year's Booker Prize for fiction. The prize is one of the world's…
Philip Roth Discusses Everyman
Philip Roth is one of my favourite writers; he is one of the few writers whose prose seems like it…
Pitmatic
Earlier in the week a dictionary of the lost language of Pitmatic was reviewed in The Guardian. Coming from a…
