In the mid-2000s, Guardian Weekend magazine ran a regular feature called “Writers’ Rooms”. As a secretly aspiring writer (is there even another kind of writer?) I couldn’t get enough of looking at photos of book-lined studies furnished with beautiful antique desks. These images seemed to represent literary success as well as the key to it.
nOne-year-old girls reciting Don DeLillo’s prose – it sounds like an extreme English slang, but for the filmmaker ben rivers It was the foundation of his new film, and the culmination of an unlikely friendship with the literary giant. DeLillo is an almost mythical figure of contemporary literature. His prose is precisely crafted, his narratives
Madeleine Schwartz recommends Bruna Dantas Lobato, Uwem Akpan, Maeve Brennan and others I’ve spent much of my career reporting outside the United States, but in recent years, many of my interviews have ended the same way: with me being asked questions about what’s happening at home. The world is watching the changing politics in the