MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
An exclusively marketing event disappoints with vacuity of ‘debates’
ANGUS REID harks back to the times, not that distant, when debates were fearsome confrontations about contemporary, pressing issues
WISH-FOR PANEL: Mick Lynch, Jeremy Corbyn, Neil Findlay?
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
THE Edinburgh International Book Festival is a “prestige” event. The atmosphere is relaxed, the tickets are expensive and heaven help those who don’t have a VIP pass.
A group of literary agents gave a talk, justifying their indispensable role in getting published (they need to establish your brand, apparently) and when they took a poll two thirds of the audience were looking for an agent.
But there was no way you could get into that tent, and the friendliness was a charade.
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