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Featured Poem: Ode To Autumn
Thursday October 4 is National Poetry Day here in the UK and to mark the occasion we are going to…
Recommended Reads: Black Swan Green
David Mitchell is surely one of the best British novelists writing today and his latest novel Black Swan Green strengthens…
Recommended Reads: Einstein, His Life and Universe
By Siobhan Chapman. Walter Isaacson. Einstein, His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Albert Einstein was an engaging and…
Neglected Books
One of the areas where The Reader magazine excels is in looking again at writing that would otherwise get lost…
V.S. Naipaul on Young People These Days
He's been everywhere the last week or so. V.S. Naipaul has a book to sell and he seems to think…
The Booker Prize: Those Readability Stats in Full
Over at One-Minute Book Reviews Janice Harayda has been having fun with Microsoft Word's readability stats feature. Sadly this amusing…
Paul Muldoon: New Yorker Poetry Editor
The New York Times reports that the New Yorker magazine has appointed Irish poet Paul Muldoon as its poetry editor.…
Cold Pastoral: The Security of Nouns
An item on the radio this morning was discussing the security situation in Iraq and describing the ferocity and ruthlessness…
Reader Editor Guest Blogging
In the run-up to the publication of his book on Bernard Malamud Reader editor Philip Davis has been blogging for…
Sylvia Plath Reads ‘Daddy’
This astonishing short film in which Sylvia Plath reads her poem 'Daddy' comes as quite a surprise. Not only does…
The Literary Feedback Loop
There's a lot of discussion in American book circles these days about the declining coverage of books in major newspapers,…
On The Road: Kerouac Roundup
September marks the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, notorious for being written on a single roll…
