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Here are some portraits of writers by the late Fay Godwin. The photographer’s archive, acquired by the British Library contains over 11,000 photographs and letters. The selection here includes this delightful study of Jean Rhys, as well as the young Salman Rushdie, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes,...
Margaret Drabble: Forty years ago legalised abortion was a triumph, but is it time to rethink the rights of the unborn? ... Forty years ago legalised abortion was a triumph, but is it time to rethink the rights of the unborn? It was the old wives' abortion remedy that...
A beautifully designed garden needn't cost the earth, argues Joe Swift. Stephen Lacey meets a born entrepreneur. ... A beautifully designed garden needn't cost the earth, argues Joe Swift. Stephen Lacey meets a born entrepreneur 'I want to make buying a garden as simple...
The Guardian's recent booklets marginalise women poets, even as they promote the discipline of verse ... She did not give birth to poems - she wrote them: Sylvia Plath It's a truth universally acknowledged (in Britain anyway) that Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop are...
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day". obsequious \ob-SEE-kwee-us\, adjectiveServilely attentive; compliant to excess; fawning. Example sentences: His wealth nevertheless turns the townspeople into...
America badly needs to improve its global imageFOR all their differences, the presidential candidates agree on one thing: that America needs to make a big effort to improve its global image. Mr Obama argues that his personal biography?he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother...
The dance performance at The Center for the Arts last Friday - Starz - was terrific. I totally loved the youngest break dancer; he melted my heart. ... Starz - was terrific. I totally loved the youngest break dancer; he melted my heart. So good to see young males on...
DA THE PROSPECT The "state of the nation" novel is back in fashion, with recent examples from Hanif Kureishi, Sebastian Faulks and Louis de Bernières. But many of these books focus too closely on "authentic" period detail at the expense of convincing characters and stories Philip HensherPhilip...
Great Poets Of The 20th Century. From The Guardian so Brit bias... Introduction, William Boyd on Siegfried Sassoon, John Banville on Seamus Heaney, Jeanette Winterson on Ted Hughes, Andrew Motion on Philip Larkin, Margaret Drabble on Sylvia Plath, Rowan Williams on WH Auden, Craig Raine on T.S....
Letters: I suspect UK audiences for foreign-language films would be even higher if it were not for the ridiculously limited opportunities to actually see them ... I suspect UK audiences for foreign-language films would be even higher (Foreign films make it big at the box...
