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The Great Gatsby meets Baz Luhrmann

This might be the best attempt yet to film Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Which is not to say this is a good film Writing about Baz Luhrmann's Gatsby in relation to F Scott Fitzgerald's prose, is like...

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Which five authors are in running for the 2013 Nobel prize?

A tweet from the Swedish Academy has unleashed a flood of speculation about the five writers they are considering - could it be Don DeLillo's year, or perhaps it's Murakami's turn There's been a...

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Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction

This week's sale of acclaimed first editions signed by their authors, which I've helped organise, invites a few questions – which I've set out to answer here My bookselling colleagues wonder if I...

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George Orwell's critique of internet English

The concerns of Orwell's 1946 essay remain notably relevant to the changes in written language wrought by the digital age Some while ago, with reference to Orwell's essay on "Politics and the...

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Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney

A lover's lament to personified 'Absence', the melancholy here is contained by a remarkably elegant rhetorical technique This week's poem comes from a collection of sonnets, songs, pastorals,...

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Reader reviews roundup

Concrete fiction from Stephen Marche and a Martian adventure with Ken Kalfus are among this week's books under review This week's reviews included a new discovery for me. He is Stephen Marche,...

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How do you write about life when it's lived on computers?

Fiction writers face a challenge in depicting the ubiquitous 21st-century experience of virtual existence We live more and more of our life through the screens of laptops and smartphones, but how...

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Is this the end of fiction's genre wars?

Has the question of genre in fiction become 'a flimsy irrelevence' or will the mores of the book trade maintain the distinctions? This week, the chair of this year's Man Booker prize, Robert...

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Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today?

The space to talk about the books you are reading, and find out which ones we are reviewing One conversation in last week's thread was particularly pleasing to the books team: it was about the...

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Bestselling writers know that image counts

Robert Langdon, Harry Potter, Lisbeth Salander – you can picture them instantly. Visually memorable characters are making a welcome comeback to crime and thriller novels The Harris Tweed jacket of...

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When horror stopped being supernatural

How afraid should we be for scary reading now that fiction's monsters are being reinvented as worldly threats? It's a cliché to say that Author W does for Subject X what Author Y did for Subject Z....

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Which books make you laugh? - Open thread

This year's Wodehouse prize for comic fiction has been awarded to Howard Jacobson - again. But what makes you laugh? • Enter a competition to win up to £250 worth of National Book Tokens, and enter...

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The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view

Baz Luhrmann's new version is the latest attempt to adapt a book notoriously hard to bring to the screen I'm writing this a few days before the UK premiere of Baz Luhrmann's new film of The Great...

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WG Sebald's quietly potent legacy

Out of tune with the hustling digital world, his singular, deeply personal books continue to inspire and intrigue Whenever readers despair of contemporary book culture, pointing to the horrors of...

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The Albion Beatnik bookshop: a viral success worth catching

A high-street indie drawing 81,000 web visits in a day might seem surprising – but there are many reasons why it should • Enter a competition to win up to £250 worth of National Book Tokens, and...

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Poem of the week: The Unquiet Grave

Concise and musical, this is one of the most popular versions of a much-reworked ballad of aching love and loss This week's poem is among the most beautiful of the "Child" ballads. It's an...

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Which literary novels should daredevil film directors adapt next? | John Dugdale

The same daredevil spirit that has informed many an apparently insane film or TV version over the past decade has seen adaptations of literary novels When the Cannes film festival starts next week,...

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Reader reviews roundup

From the identity of Shakespeare to the horrors of Guantanamo Bay, this week's reviewers do battle with orthodoxy The latest crop of reader reviews took me back to an earlier stage in my life when...

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Poster poems: the erotic

Call it lust, lunging or love, actually – now is your chance to seduce us with your celebration of the erotic The recent discovery of a previously unknown explicit love poem by Vita Sackville-West...

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Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today?

The space to talk about the books you are reading, and find out which ones we are reviewing Hello all. For those of you coming to this blog for the first time, this is a space where you can discuss...

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Art of fear: which are the best books inspired by the second world war?

As a weekend of talks and music at the Southbank Centre explores our cultural debt to the 1940s conflict, we ask which other great works were born on the battlefield The Rest Is Noise, a festival...

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Was there ever a better letter from an author?

Sylvia received a remarkable bit of post from an author. Have you received replies to fan letters? Here, courtesy of Publishers Weekly, is the "best author letter ever". Children's writer Elizabeth...

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Rereading Stephen King, chapter 20: Skeleton Crew

Three stories in this collection of truly terrifying tales impressed me so much I stole the concepts for my own writing – and I'm not the only author to do so Revisiting any book that means...

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Midsummer Night's Dreaming: the RSC takes a smattering of Google fairy dust

An internet production of Shakespeare's classic comedy is not so much the RSC dumbing down as Google flaunting its cultural credentials – and that can only be a good thing In last week's blog,...

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Music to murder to: crime writers on their killer soundtracks

You're more likely to see other crime writers at gigs than literary events, so what role does music have in the creation of crime fiction? Music and crime fiction. They go so well together that...

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Reader reviews roundup

Praise for Ian McEwan's latest and a survey of museum collections with room for improvement Lakis opens his review of Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth with an admission. He "never liked" Atonement, finding...

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A glimpse into Guantánamo Bay's library

From the well-thumbed – Danielle Steele – to the untouched classics, pictures posted by US journalists show the reading matter permitted in the world's most controversial prison The Pentagon...

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Are you reading novels to make new friends?

Claire Messud's latest novel features a protagonist who rages against all she has lost – bring it on Cries of sexism are being heard from across the Atlantic after Annasue McCleave Wilson suggested...

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Message for Mars: Nasa seeks haikus

Nasa is looking for haikus in the form of a 'message for Mars' that will accompany their Maven mission in November I have not entered a literary contest since I was 11, when I was utterly convinced...

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The Great Gatsby meets Baz Luhrmann

Which five authors are in running for the 2013 Nobel prize?

Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction

George Orwell's critique of internet English

Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney

Reader reviews roundup

How do you write about life when it's lived on computers?

Is this the end of fiction's genre wars?

Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today?

Bestselling writers know that image counts

When horror stopped being supernatural

Which books make you laugh? - Open thread

The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view

WG Sebald's quietly potent legacy

The Albion Beatnik bookshop: a viral success worth catching

Poem of the week: The Unquiet Grave

Which literary novels should daredevil film directors adapt next? | John Dugdale

Reader reviews roundup

Poster poems: the erotic

Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today?

Art of fear: which are the best books inspired by the second world war?

Was there ever a better letter from an author?

Rereading Stephen King, chapter 20: Skeleton Crew

Midsummer Night's Dreaming: the RSC takes a smattering of Google fairy dust

Music to murder to: crime writers on their killer soundtracks

Reader reviews roundup

A glimpse into Guantánamo Bay's library

Are you reading novels to make new friends?

Message for Mars: Nasa seeks haikus

Folio prize: a level playing field for self-published authors

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