John of John by Douglas Stuart
“Glasgow tenements give way to Hebridean light.”
A review of Deborah Levy’s My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein. Compressed, witty, allusive, formally restless — and one of the best books published this year.
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Is poetry dying? What the evidence actually shows about poetry’s readership, revenue, and cultural presence in 2026.
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Milk and Honey sold more than Plath or Angelou. The question isn't whether the work is good. It's what it cost.
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Men make up around twenty per cent of literary fiction readers. An honest look at what happened and what we lost.
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A 285-page one-sentence WWI novel beats the consensus favourites. What the win signals about where American literary fiction is going.
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A literary editing game. Ten short pieces of original fiction, each with a single hidden typo. Find them and score yourself out of ten.
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