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Good Omens is going beyond the book? That’s not a bad sign
30.06.2021
While Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett never wrote a sequel, they did sketch out a plot that will now form a second season. If they wanted to continue the story, I want to watch it. In 2017, when Neil Gaiman first sat down in St James’s Park, London, ready to start filming the television adaptation o...
Lionel Shriver v Cynthia Ozick: hurrah for the new literary beef
The books world was growing worryingly well-mannered, but Ozick’s response – in verse – to a bad review by Shriver has revived the fine art of feuding. Whether it is Henry Fielding mocking Samuel Richardson’s painfully virtuous Pamela with his spoof, Shamela; Lillian Hellman suing Mary Mc. Carthy fo...
Why I am deleting Goodreads and maybe you should, too | Kat Smith
There’s a buzz to sharing your reading life, but for me it turned it into a kind of competition that distracts from what I love about books. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed reading a book where my enjoyment wasn’t tied to the euphoric sense of achievement I got from finishing it. This is no...
Haruki Murakami's new T-shirt line proves it: he's no recluse
The notoriously private author’s latest project, a stylish clothing collaboration with Uniqlo, marks the latest step in his opening up to the world. It may be time to stop calling the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami “reclusive”. Over the last few years, he has become a radio show host, a sort of l...