A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet beauty.
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Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate matter.
The prize has gone to a Norwegian playwright and novelist whose work examines the lives of ordinary people on the outer reaches of society.
Humanity is the only species on earth for whom intelligence is also an ethical liability.
There is a long tradition in China of associating monkeys with the mind – symbolism that has helped the novel’s most memorable character, the Monkey King, find universal resonance.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
This well-researched book brings to life the odd case of Sir Roger Tichborne and those around him.
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
To read broadly and deeply is a marvellous thing that can make us alert to the wide-ranging varieties of being. But no book will condemn or redeem us.
Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
The framing of these stories of murder and mayhem have remained remarkably consistent since the invention of the printing press – and may reveal our own hidden fears and desires.
A classic of modern Japanese literature, Black Rain has come to exemplify ‘atomic bomb literature’.
Nigeria’s writer and professor of drama, Kole Omotoso, died on 19 July 2023 aged 80.
No one languished in bed quite like the Victorians
Milan Kundera, the celebrated Czech author best known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has died, aged 94. His work interrogated totalitarianism and explored ideas – leavened with bleak humour.
Six of the best books from 2023 to read this summer.
Elizabeth Gilbert’s decision to cancel the publication of her latest novel needs to be understood in the context of a long history of symbolic protest.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure.
The late American writer was drawn towards death and apocalypse, tet to read his work is also to be exhilarated and enlightened.
For Franz Kafka, writing was a strange way of thinking and being in the world.
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