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!

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

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

Danny Roberts/ Fashion Ilustrador II

 

Danny Roberts

FASHION ILLUSTRATOR II

Danny Roberts / Fashion illustrator I

Danny Roberts

FASHION ILLUSTRATOR I

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.

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’.

Books

Previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart shortlisted for Booker prize

The two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist

 Booker judge Mary Beard on this year’s shortlist

Ella Creamer
Tuesday 22 Sep 2026 

This year’s Booker prize shortlist features some very familiar names – previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running once more, along with Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout and prominent British speculative fiction writer M John Harrison.

I read 163 novels and these are the six best: Mary Beard on judging the Booker prize

The finalists … the Booker prize 2026 shortlist: L to r, Elizabeth Strout (The Things We Never Say), Marlon James (The Disappearers), M John Harrison (The End of Everything), Douglas Stuart (John of John), Luke Kennard (Black Bag), Rebecca Perry (May We Feed the King). Photograph: Yuki Sugiura/Booker prize foundation

I read 163 novels and these are the six best:

Mary Beard on judging the Booker prize

I found being a Booker judge hugely rewarding. All the works on our shortlist will change how you see the world

Mary Beard

Tuesday 22 September 2026

As a Booker judge, I think I have worked harder than I have ever done before. Reading 163 novels in six months, making careful assessments, being ready to argue for your judgment, going back to check you haven’t got it wrong … in some ways it took more energy than actually writing a book. But it was also hugely rewarding and fun. I shall never forget the discussions in our regular judging meetings, and the pleasure of discovering how we had sometimes reached almost exactly the same view of a book, and sometimes dramatically diverged. There were no big newsworthy squabbles, but a lot of discussion, a lot of listening and re-reading.

Mary Cassatt / L'indépendante

Mary Cassatt, Fillette dans un fauteuil bleu [Enfant dans le salon bleu] (detail), 1878. Courtesy of Musée d’Orsay

Mary Cassatt: l'indépendante

6 Oct 2026 — 31 Jan 2027 at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France

10 SEPTEMBER 202

In 2026, in order to mark the hundredth anniversary of the artist’s death, the Musée d’Orsay is organizing a major exhibition devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). In France, this will be a long-awaited event: its national museums have never devoted a major exhibition to Mary Cassatt, an active member and pillar of the impressionist group. Her centenary provides an opportunity to examine the central place occupied by this prominent artist who, through talent and determination, succeed in forging a unique identity in late 19th- and early 20th-century art history, on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Committee Weighs In by Andrea Cohen

 

The Committee Weighs In

by Andrea Cohen

I tell my mother
I’ve won the Nobel Prize.

Again? she says. Which
discipline this time?

It’s a little game
we play: I pretend

I’m somebody, she
pretends she isn’t dead.

Andrea Cohen’s most recent books are Kentucky Derby and Long Division. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.