On Rosalía by Anne Carson

On Rosalía

Anne Carson

10 September 2026

 

Ihave​ a Rosalía hangover. We climbed a giant day to reach her, all twenty thousand Chicago fans. Strutting and grinning and asterisking her eyes she held their shrieking out around her like a magic cloak and changed them all to rabbits or a vase of tulips inside its folds. The white crinolines. The shrieking. So much to understand. At her every inhalation of breath the entire audience screamed as if she were raking their individual spines with her fingernail, each spine. That voice can do anything. And the persona blooms out to contain it. Imagine seducing twenty thousand people like this every night on a tour of God knows how many cities, I can’t.

Gloves on! by Anne Carson

 

Anne Carson

Gloves on!

Anne Carson

15 August 2024

So,​ your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re 25, then you make some decisions, do things, have setbacks, have triumphs, become someone, a bus driver, a professor of Indo-European linguistics, a pirate, a cosmetologist, years pass, maybe in a family maybe not, maybe happy maybe not, then one day you wake up and you’re seventy. Looking ahead you see a black doorway. You begin to notice the black doorway is always there, at the edge, whether you look at it or not. Most moments contain it, most moments have a sort of sediment of black doorway at the bottom of the glass. You wonder if other people are seeing it too. You ask them. They say no. You ask why. No one can tell you.

Fox and Hedgehog / The myths of Anne Carson

 

Illustration by Lily Qian.

Fox and Hedgehog

The myths of Anne Carson

EMILY WILSON
4 June 2024

Be Canadian. Be zany. Be moody. Be relatable. Write about your mother. Write about desire. Write about trauma. Write about loneliness. Write about grief. Write about nature. Write about the body. Invoke universals. Make it mythic. Tell it slant. Do not use rhyme. Do not use meter. Use short lines. Leave a lot of space on the page. Juxtapose your words with quivery line drawings in ink or paint or collage.

‘She does not subjugate or manipulate her words. She lets them be’ … Anne Carson. Photograph: TT News Agency

‘Infinite genius’: Yiyun Li on Anne Carson

When her sons died the Book of Goose author turned to Grief Lessons, Carson’s translation of four plays by Euripides. She reflects on the ‘life sustaining’ work of an extraordinary writer

Yiyun Li

Friday 9 October 2026

It is preposterous to agree to write a short piece on Anne Carson’s work. The task is impossible, akin to that of solving the mathematical problem of dividing zero by zero. If one had the power to solve it, perhaps one would have some confidence in attempting to write about Anne Carson’s work. Attempting, I say, not succeeding. In attempting to do so, I shall emphasise that all words fall short in extreme situations, which not only include unfathomable losses (of children, in my case) but also include articulating anything about Anne Carson’s work.

Anne Carson
Photograph: Peter Power

Where to start with: Anne Carson

From essays on sexual jealousy to retellings of classical Greek tragedies, here’s a guide to the Nobel prize-winning writer’s catalogue of work

Fiona Sampson

Thursday 8 October 2026

A

nne Carson, the Canadian poet who has been awarded this year’s Nobel prize in literature, is an exhilarating choice by the committee. The sheer range of writing she has been producing since the mid-1980s is exceptional: poetry, essays, translations, collaborative artwork, and works that find intriguingly under-explored meeting points between scholarship, graphic design and personal rites of passage.

Risk and vision … Anne Carson. Photograph: Peter Smith

‘Delights await!’: Margaret Atwood and other writers on Nobel winner Anne Carson

The Handmaid’s Tale author is joined by Emily Wilson, Ocean Vuong and Booker-shortlisted writer Rebecca Perry in celebrating the newly announced Nobel laureate

Emma Loffhagen and Leyland Cecco
8 October 2026

Margaret Atwood

Anne Carson’s work has long been admired among poets of many countries. For new readers, I would recommend The Beauty of the Husband – direct and visceral, funny and angry and sad – or Men in the Off Hours. Delights await!

Illustration by Courtney Wotherspoon

Is Anne Carson the First Poet with More Fans than Readers?

Her abstruse, down-tuned music is the soundtrack to poetry’s institutionalized life in the twenty-first century

BY MICHAEL LISTA
ILLUSTRATION BY COURTNEY WOTHERSPOON
Updated 14:27, Apr. 1, 2020 | Published 9:30, Sep. 23, 2016

IN 1986, a Canadian classics professor named Anne Carson published Eros the Bittersweet, a collection of erudite essays about love. It was an unusual book for an academic, in that it reflected the half-mad presumption that someone, somewhere might be reading it for fun. “It was Sappho who first called Eros ‘bittersweet,’” Carson writes. “No one who has been in love disputes her.”

Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026

The academy cited Anne Carson’s ‘bold and inventive oeuvre’ in its awarding of the prize. Photograph: Pontus Lundahl

Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026

Most prestigious literature prize goes to Canadian known for genre-crossing works such as Autobiography of Red

Emma Loffhagen and Leyland Cecco in Toronto
8 October 2026

The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced.

 

Mario Vargas Llosa

Top 10 books about boarding school

From Evelyn Waugh to Molesworth, novels set in these places of privilege are microcosmic studies of oppression and rebellion

 

The best books on Spies, Lies and Foreign Correspondents

recommended by Richard Beeston

The former foreign correspondent takes us on a gloriously anecdotal ramble through the history of war reporting, espionage and journalistic half-truths, and recalls his encounters and friendship with "the third man" Kim Philby

The best books on Reportage and War

The best books on Reportage and War

recommended by Martin Bell

The former BBC war reporter picks out essential reading on the Bosnia and Vietnam wars and explains why a book of poetry speaks more to him about the reality of conflict than any other writing

You spent most of your career as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, but in recent years you have been best known for your campaigns against sleaze and corruption in British political life. In the wake of the parliamentary expenses scandal in 2009, have British politicians cleaned up their act?

I think they’ve started. But I think they’ve fallen back a bit. Indeed they’ve turned their fire on the regulator, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. And many of those that had abused their position and falsely claimed expenses and managed to get re-elected, took their re-election as if it had wiped the slate clean and they could start all over again.

Danny Roberts / Fashion Illustrator III

Danny Roberts

FASHION ILLUSTRATOR III

Carl Holsoe

Carl Holsoe

(Arhus, 1863-Asserbo, 1935)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNhY3pQOqDg

Doofboy69 / Women

 

Doofboy69
WOMEN

Antonio Lopez / Fashion Illustrator

Fashion Illustrator- Antonio Lopez

There are not too many Fashion Industry companies seemingly interested in using Fashion illustrators these days. When one looks through a current magazine, it is all about the photo. And what that photo captures, which goes way beyond the clothes. I have seen Nordstom’s adverts in Vogue magazines where Ruben Toledo, the husband of Fashion Designer Isabel Toledo is featured in multi-page spreads. I have also seen only his talent being used as backdrops with models featured in the foreground.

Danny Roberts / Fashion illustrator I

Danny Roberts

FASHION ILLUSTRATOR I

Danny Roberts/ Fashion Ilustrador II

 

Danny Roberts

FASHION ILLUSTRATOR II

1949 An Interview With Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh, Age 26 (1930)
Henry Lamb (English, 1883-1960)
Collection of Lord Moyne

An Interview With Evelyn Waugh

By HARVEY BREIT
March 3, 1949

o matter how you look at him, Mr. Evelyn Waugh is a deceptive man: what meets the eye is at variance with what meets the ear. A remark he makes suggests cynicism, or perhaps a satiric humor, but Mr. Waugh's face--bland, pink and cherubic--suggests only innocence. In fact, expression on Mr. Waugh's face is at a minimum--a flicker of amusement, of naughtiness, an infinitesimal hint of wonder. In feature it's a little like a boyish Winston Churchill's. And Mr. Waugh's bowler, cigar and dapper, plump figure extend the resemblance.

1945 Brideshead Revisited / Evelyn Waugh's Finest Novel

 

Evelyn Waugh's Finest Novel

By JOHN K. HUTCHENS

My theme, says the narrator in Evelyn Waugh's latest, his most carefully written and deeply felt novel, "is memory, that winged host." And, with that, the brightly devastating satirist of England's Twenties and Thirties moves from one world to another and a larger one: from the lunacy of a burlesqued Mayfair, very glib and funny and masking the serious point in farce, to a world in which people credibly think and feel. Whether "Brideshead Revisited" is technically as expert, of its kind, as "Decline and Fall, "Vile Bodies" or "A Handful of Dust" may be debatable. The important point just now that it is bigger and richer, and that--to those of Mr. Waugh's admirers who might recently have suspected he was exhausting a rather limited field--it will almost certainly be his most interesting book in ten years: more interesting in story and in style, and not least in what it implies about its author and his growth as an analyst and an artist.

2014 Classic Book Review / ‘Scoop’ by Evelyn Waugh

 

Classic Book Review: ‘Scoop’ by Evelyn Waugh

Tolita Raymond
February 13, 2014

I recently read an article in which an author listed Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Scoop’ amongst his favourite books. He said that he considered it superior to his masterpiece ‘Brideshead Revisited’.