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100 years on, T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men is a poem for our populist moment

In 1927, at 38 years of age, the expatriated American poet T.S. Eliot was baptised and confirmed in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. The celebrated author of The Waste Land (1922) – that literary paragon of abject nihilism – had pivoted away from the liberal, philosophical underpinnings of his upbringing and education,…

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Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald

A wounded bird becomes an image for much wider damage to our world

The Guardian - UK

‘Animal Farm was my parents’ teamwork’: Orwell’s son on 80 years of the satirical classic

Richard Blair on the role his mother played in developing the 1945 political fable – and how it nearly didn’t get published

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Helen Grime: Chamber Music review – clarity and colour from one of Britain’s most exciting young composers

Informed by Ted Hughes, TS Eliot and the natural world, Grime’s smaller-scale chamber pieces are alive with instrumental texture

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Cats at 40: a dazzling cast – stuck in an outdated show

The star of the 40th anniversary production of Cats – which premiered at the Theatre Royal Sydney last week – is the performing ensemble.

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‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark

From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future

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Nuclear haystacks and the patron saint of tyre repairs – Od arts festival review

There are so many delights in this bite-sized biennale with a wild side – from glowing haystacks to hop-pickers on stilts and star turn the Museum of Roadside Magic

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Euronews Culture Book Club: Four picks for April

Music, matriarchs, and modernism are the themes of this month's book recommendations. This April, we're looking at the latest work from a one of Japan's most exciting writers, and one of the best musical memoirs of recent years.

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Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri review – a slender fable

The magical healing power of a masked costume ball hangs in the balance in this whimsical tale of transformation

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Roger Harcourt obituary

Other lives: Headteacher who transformed the lives of his Hertfordshire comprehensive pupils with summer Shakespeare camps

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‘There’s a majesty to grief’: TS Eliot poetry prize winner Peter Gizzi

The American writer won the prestigious prize for Fierce Elegy, a collection informed by the deaths of his family members. He explains why poetry is like friendship – and why he loves small words

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‘Transcendental beauty’ of Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy wins him TS Eliot poetry prize

Judges for the £25,00 award say the collection, informed by grief for his two brothers, ‘braves large questions’ with its lyric sequence

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Death is at the heart of Christmas. That’s why we love to tell festive ghost stories

It’s a creepy time of year from The Archers to Nosferatu to Mark Gatiss’ Woman of Stone

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A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life

It is probably wrong to touch, even gently, these creatures. But even now I find it difficult to resist

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AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows

Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible

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On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy review – in the presence of a higher power

Philosopher Simon Critchley’s painstaking attempt to explore transcendent experience provides a fascinating overview of Christianity’s great outliers

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The Independent helps raise £90,000 to return 13th-century Bible to Salisbury Cathedral where it was written

It is only one of six manuscripts to be attributed to the medieval artist the Sarum Master

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New wars, old wars, famine, panic everywhere. So much for a quiet August

From Bangladesh to Venzuela, one calamity rapidly overtakes another, but common denominators include poverty, corruption and lack of hope

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How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

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My encounter with Edna O’Brien, the great literary crusader and giant of Irish literature

The death of Edna O’Brien at the age of 93 brings an end to the long reign of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, who attracted both controversy and adulation throughout her trailblazing career. Lynn Enright remembers the profound personal impact of her debut novel ‘The Country Girls’ – banned in…

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Martha Whittome obituary

Other lives: Teacher and arts administrator who played an important part in the early days of the TS Eliot prize

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“How could Syd Barrett find being in the back of a van with the lads interesting, when his head was out there? You’re working all the time in your head”: The prog credentials of Prefab Sprout’s Paddy McAloon

There are hints throughout the band’s catalogue, but cult album I Trawl The Megahertz, built from quotes found in broadcast media, is Exhibit A in the prog case

Salon

Israel and the Puritans: A dark mirror

When English settlers came to the "new Zion," they behaved much like Israeli Zionists today. What's the lesson?

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‘I want some light in my life’: eight writers make their new year reading resolutions

Finding fun, getting lost in an epic and taking a first peek at science fiction ... Sathnam Sanghera, Elif Shafak, Sarah Waters and more make their reading resolutions for 2024

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Seeking Michael Hastings, the missing man of British theatre

Best known for writing Tom and Viv, Hastings made his debut as a teenage dramatist in the 1950s. Now, his vivid ‘young man’s play’ Don’t Destroy Me is back

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