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Carol Rumens obituary
silverguide.site – Poet, poetry editor and writer of the Guardian’s long-running Poem of the Week column…
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Gerry Conway obituary
silverguide.site – Comic book writer and co-creator of Marvel’s avenging antihero the Punisher…
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The perils of judging a book by its hard cover | Letters
silverguide.site – Letters: Readers take issue with an article that advocated ditching hardback books in favour of paperbacks…
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John of John by Douglas Stuart review – will a father and son come out to each other?
silverguide.site – The Booker winner’s epic tale of gay love and loneliness in the Hebrides charts an uneasy homecoming against a backdrop of repression…
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‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney
silverguide.site – His first story collection, Reward System, was a cult hit. Now comes a novel that’s a bleakly funny appraisal of millennial relationships, technology and ennui. He talks about love, precarity and being called the ‘voice of a generation’…
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Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov review – the long view
silverguide.site – An erudite account of the foundation of the state and its subsequent moral and political decline…
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The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps
silverguide.site – From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up…
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‘She made Mondays something to look forward to’: readers pay tribute to Carol Rumens, Guardian’s Poem of the week columnist
silverguide.site – Rumens, whose column ran for nearly 20 years and developed a loyal readership, died this week aged 81…
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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
silverguide.site – The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed; The Rainshadow Orphans by Naomi Ishiguro; No Ghosts by Max Lury; Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler; Moon Over Brendle by Jeff Noon…
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This Book May Cause Side Effects by Helen Pilcher review – can you think yourself sick?
silverguide.site – Fearing the worst can lead to physical changes, according to this fascinating study of a strange medical phenomenon…
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Report shows banned non-fiction books doubled over last school year in US
silverguide.site – New PEN America report analysed 3,743 unique titles removed from libraries and classrooms and found books about activism and social movements were targeted…
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Solace House by Will Maclean review – immensely fun gothic horror with a psychedelic twist
silverguide.site – A dead poet’s cluttered mansion is the setting for a heady brew of magic, mystery and mushrooms…
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JM Coetzee declines to attend Jerusalem writers festival over Israel’s ‘genocidal campaign in Gaza’
silverguide.site – Nobel laureate says he previously considered himself a supporter of Israel, but ‘the campaign of annihilation in Gaza has changed all that’…
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Best Australian books out in May: Robert Forster’s crime caper, a ‘superb’ new novel and Periodic Bitch
silverguide.site – Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on…
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Young King: revealing book shines light on Martin Luther King Jr’s early days
silverguide.site – Lerone Martin’s new book offers fascinating insight into the civil rights icon’s younger years…
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What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton review – shyness, obsession and the joy of karaoke
silverguide.site – The feverish interiority of a young woman abroad is captured with offbeat wit and disarming candour in the first novel from the translator of Butter…
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Lady C by Guy Cuthbertson review – how Lady Chatterley’s Lover rocked Britain
silverguide.site – A history of the social and cultural impact of DH Lawrence’s novel shows how it inspired comedy as well as controversy…
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Carol Rumens, poet and the Guardian’s poem of the week columnist, dies aged 81
silverguide.site – The British poet, who also wrote plays, fiction and published poetry in translation, analysed almost 1,000 poems for her much-loved series…
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The Given World by Melissa Harrison review – a stunning tale of rural life for an era of ecological crisis
silverguide.site – Eerie omens haunt this absorbing group portrait set over six months in an English village…
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One Leg on Earth by ’Pemi Aguda review – a powerfully eerie portrait of Lagos
silverguide.site – A young pregnant woman is assailed by dark visions of sisterhood in a novel splicing eco-horror, cosmic distress and ideas of the monstrous feminine…
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