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Life’s little graces: Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell, reviewed

5 October 2024 9:00 am

An unnamed narrator, confined to hospital with a torn aorta, reminisces about his past life in Bulgaria, his love of poetry and the happy domesticity he shared with his partner

Four female writers at the court of Elizabeth I

27 April 2024 9:00 am

Of Ramie Targoff’s gifted quartet, Mary Sidney was particularly admired by her contemporaries for her translation of the Psalms into English verse

There’s nothing shameful about hypochondria

13 April 2024 9:00 am

Caroline Crampton describes the real agonies of people obsessed with their fragility, revealing that her own hypochondria stems from a childhood cancer diagnosis

The poet with many lives

14 August 2021 9:00 am

This is an ingenious and infuriating book about an ingenious and infuriating writer. I first encountered Fernando Pessoa in the…