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A ‘half-used life’ blasted to extinction
One of the most celebrated poets of World War I was, for a short time, the toast of local society.
Young Catton wins Booker
Eleanor Catton (28) became the youngest writer to win the Man Booker prize when The Luminaries, took the 45th Booker at the awards dinner this week.
Richard Rive biography: Where’s the roistering braggart?
A new biography fails to capture the turbulent life and death of one of South Africa’s most distinguished authors.
An ode to Grecian earnestness
One of our most venerable poets extols the virtues not of the classical Greeks, but of their descendants.