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For today's @ftweekend I interviewed Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi about their brilliant, @TheBookerPrizes winning Heart Lamp ft.com/content/b885d420-d4b2…
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Next Thursday evening at the @southbankcentre, I'm excited to be introducing the great Geoff Dyer's @NewStatesman @GoldsmithsPrize lecture on why the novel matters, and to be in conversation with him afterwards.
Link for tickets below; remember to use the discount code NOVEL5OFF
Edmund White has died aged 85. I have fond memories of interviewing him for @theipaper three years ago when one of his wild late novels was published. He was great fun, open and generous with his answers to my questions. RIP inews.co.uk/culture/books/ed…
Great interview with Yasmin Zaher by @ella_louise_c on the @dylanthomprize winning The Coin, Lispector, Houellebecq Palestine... theguardian.com/books/2025/j…
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For today's @ftweekend I interviewed Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi about their brilliant, @TheBookerPrizes winning Heart Lamp ft.com/content/b885d420-d4b2…
"The Coin is a profound meditation on our contemporary world and our complicity in the destruction of another place and people." Great piece about why we awarded the @dylanthomprize to The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
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Congratulations to Yasmin Zaher who has woken up to a bright spring morning here in Swansea as the 2025 @SwanseaUni Dylan Thomas Prize WINNER 🏆. Her debut novel, 'The Coin' was the judges unanimous pick in an incredibly strong shortlist of titles by 6 amazing authors. #SUDTP25
Tomorrow at the @britishlibrary. I'll be asking @dylanthomprize shortlisted authors about their books. They'll also read. Begins at the beginning at 7pm!
We are thrilled that our prize patron, the wonderful, and great @michaelsheen, will help us celebrate 20 years of the prize and this year's incredible shortlist at the @britishlibrary on 14th May (the night before we crown this year's winner!)
Tickets: bit.ly/SUDTP25BL
I reviewed Ocean Vuong's The Emperor of Gladness - the most frustrating novel I've read for some time - for @ftweekend ft.com/content/4ee15065-d790…
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The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong — life on the edge in blue-collar America on.ft.com/4m7LK6D
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There's really only one place to be on 14 May and that is the @britishlibrary!
7pm-7:30pm: The brilliant @michaelsheen in conversation with @elaine_canning
7:30pm-8:30pm: our incredible shortlisted authors in conversation with @maxjliu on the eve of the award ceremony. #SUDTP25
We are thrilled that our prize patron, the wonderful, and great @michaelsheen, will help us celebrate 20 years of the prize and this year's incredible shortlist at the @britishlibrary on 14th May (the night before we crown this year's winner!)
Tickets: bit.ly/SUDTP25BL
One week from today! Come to the British Library to see @dylanthomprize shortlisted authors read from their work, discuss with me and answer audience questions
We are thrilled that our prize patron, the wonderful, and great @michaelsheen, will help us celebrate 20 years of the prize and this year's incredible shortlist at the @britishlibrary on 14th May (the night before we crown this year's winner!)
Tickets: bit.ly/SUDTP25BL
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From Three Farmers... to Playground I wrote a guide to Richard Powers' fiction - or an Overview of the Overstory author - for @TheBookerPrizes: thebookerprizes.com/the-book…
From Three Farmers... to Playground I wrote a guide to Richard Powers' fiction - or an Overview of the Overstory author - for @TheBookerPrizes: thebookerprizes.com/the-book…
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The Great Gatsby was published 100 years ago today - read this brilliant piece by @maxjliu on why it's chronically misunderstood and more relevant than ever @theipaper inews.co.uk/culture/books/gr…
For today's @theipaper I wrote about The Great Gatsby which was published 100 years ago this week. Happy birthday old sport inews.co.uk/culture/books/gr…
Glorious shortlist left me rapt, nothing safe about these v good books, well worth readers' coin and time, I will stop now... Can't wait to reread, debate, decide the winner!
📚 THE 2025 SHORTLIST 📚
We are thrilled to unveil the 6 titles that make up this year's stellar Swansea University (@SwanseaUni) Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist! #SUDTP25
Who will be crowned our winner on May 15th? 🏆
PRESS RELEASE 📰 : bit.ly/SUDTPshortlist25
Liz Pelly's fine book Mood Machine, about the way Spotify rips off musicians and degrades listening, is published today. My review: ft.com/content/431a856f-41ad…
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Mahmoud Khalil has filed an emergency petition to return to NY. He is being held in Louisiana.
“It feels like my husband was kidnapped from home, and at a time when we were supposed to be planning to welcome our first child into this world,” said Khalil’s 8-months-pregnant wife.
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo_news show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home."
zeteo.com/p/scoop-emails-sho…
