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51 days ago

Joelle Taylor: ‘I picked up The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a swoon of nine-year-old despair’

The poet and playwright on queer classics, cinematic TS Eliot and the comforts of a ghost story

My earliest reading memory
I was around five when my mum first pulled out Clement C Moore’s The Night Bef…

5 months ago

I’d lost my childhood love of reading – but rediscovered it when I set aside my iPhone | Adrian Chiles

You can keep your ebooks. There is no better way to engage with words than through a paperback

Everything changes so everything can stay the same. In the beginning I read a lot. I read paperback books…

10 months ago

Niall Williams: ‘When I first read Chekhov, I thought: “He’s not so great”’

The Irish author on Enid Blyton at bedtimes, discovering Dickens, and the brilliance of Edna O’Brien

My earliest reading memory
I am sitting at the kitchen table at home in Dublin. I am home from sch…

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