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The case of the acclaimed South African novel that 'borrows' from Samuel Beckett

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

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Plagiarism, John Hughes’ The Dogs and the ethical responsibilities of the novelist

John Hughes’s novel The Dogs has been withdrawn from the longlist for the Miles Franklin Prize after an investigation by The Guardian identified numerous instances of plagiarism. Hughes’s lifting of passages from other books has sparked furious debate and literary detective work – mostly on Twitter – prompting questions about…

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Literary experts find John Hughes’ plagiarism defence unconvincing

Scholars respond to author’s explanation for his new book appearing to copy some parts of classic texts

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John Hughes: I am not a plagiarist – and here’s why

Every artist takes. What else do we do but endlessly recycle stories? It’s been going on since the ancient Greek tragedians

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Parts of John Hughes’ novel The Dogs copied from The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina

Australian author denies he is a plagiarist and says he has been ‘influenced by the greats’ of literature

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Benediction, from director Terence Davies, examines the life and secret affairs of queer English war poet Siegfried Sassoon

British director Terence Davies’s ninth feature centres on Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and decorated war veteran who suffered from shell shock and struggled to find 'redemption' from his secret queer romances.

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In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

Michelle Cahill’s Daisy Woolf takes its epigraph and its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929): “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

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The love song of TS Eliot: intense letters reveal the passion behind the pen

The great poet’s newly released missives to his lost love put the lie to his aloof image – but were dismissed by the man himself as fantasy

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Zombie workers and sexual hang-ups: how Edvard Munch foresaw our lonely lives – review

From the grief of loss to the despair of impotence and the misery of work, the Scandinavian master wallows gloriously in pain, filling the soul with the ecstatic sorrow of his colours

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Can we defeat democracy's enemies?

Confronting Putin isn't about sanctions or military strategy. It's about facing what we did to make him possible

Salon

‘Grandfather of Goth’: fans campaign for US stamp honoring Edward Gorey

Gorey’s ‘sinister whimsy’ has influenced other oddball creatives including Lemony Snicket and Tim Burton

The Guardian - US

Critical Revolutionaries by Terry Eagleton review – five critics who changed the way we read

How modern literary criticism came to be – with a little help from TS Eliot, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and others

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TS Eliot’s The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times

A century on, modernist poem’s visions of a desiccated landscape still resonate today

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Don’t forget the centenary of AE Housman’s Last Poems

Letters: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land has been getting a lot of media coverage, but there is another poet whose work is still relevant, writes Max Hunt

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Still living and partly living with TS Eliot

Brief letters: Poetic licence | Crossed wires | Clueless about Covid | Muting The Archers | Brexit walkabout

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The Guardian view on TS Eliot’s modernism: between high and low culture

Editorial: What the poet found in the most popular music hall artiste of his time shines a light on a misunderstood genius and the time he lived in

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From Pet Shop Boy to nostalgic folkie: Neil Tennant plays guitar

The synthpop maestro used lockdown to revisit folk songs he’d written in the 1970s, inspired by whichever chord he’d learned that day

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Ed Sheeran has a plan to tackle claims of plagiarism

Fresh from his legal success, the singer now films his creative process in the studio

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Get real: Real Madrid aren’t really Spanish

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Fragments festival: Your guide to this weekend’s celebration of TS Eliot’s The Waste Land

The ambitious festival, marking 100 years of the epic poem, takes in everything from live readings to sea shanties

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From Dreamland to The Waste Land

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12 destinations marking the arrival of modernist Britain

In the centennial year of modernism, we visit visionary places where artists, engineers and architects imagined the future

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‘It takes your hand off the panic button’: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land 100 years on

TS Eliot’s modernist masterpiece has baffled and moved readers for a century. Now the poem has inspired a whole festival. Fans including Jeanette Winterson pin down its elusive, allusive power

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Country diary: An unassuming chapel, full of death and life

Ayshford, Devon: It sits alone, tucked between canal and motorway, with centuries-old carvings that remind us of our mortality

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April will be cruel to UK households, but the economy's problems are much longer term

The poet TS Eliot famously proclaimed April to be the “cruellest month”. Writing after surviving a pandemic – the Spanish flu of 1918 – he was referring to the familiar (often misguided) sense of hope that traditionally accompanies the arrival of spring.

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