Zamira Rahim

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Okay this is brilliant, especially when some places use affordable art to mean "lowest prices at £5k"

Jonathan Coe: ‘I have a fascination with the right’ The author on keeping his liberal instincts in check, his love of breaking the literary fourth wall, and not fitting comfortably into the world

In which I talk about anxiety as a motivating force, never being considered for the Booker, and an early novel that's become problematic.

it would be on brand for her not to have done the reading

I actually think Pratchett is quite Tory in the classical sense: suspicious of grand promises, realistic (tho optimistic) about human nature and valuing order.

But... thats not Kemi

This is incredible. Please, someone, sit her down for a proper deep dive culture interview, I want to know her detailed thoughts on Discworld and Tiffany Aching.

Bishop died on this day in 1979. I love that image of her searching after a missing word, the right word, for years. They had one of those literary friendships that, at least when you read about it, went deeper than ego and feathers www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

Have you seen an inchworm crawl on a leaf, cling to the very end, revolve in air, feeling for something to reach to something? Do you still hang your words in air, ten years unfinished, glued to your notice board, with gaps or empties for the unimaginable phrase– unerring Muse who makes the casual perfect?

'Do you still hang your words in air, ten years
unfinished, glued to your notice board with gaps...' (from Robert Lowell's 'Four poems for Elizabeth Bishop')

Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

'Ribbons', a poem by Seamus Heaney, is published for the first time.

The poem appears in The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis. The definitive edition of Heaney's poetry is out on 9 October.

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I only recently watched BB and its spin off Better Call Saul - takes a while to get through but it's utterly worth it. I don't watch a ton of TV but those are beautifully done shows

Ian McEwan: ‘I’ve been following politics for years, and I’ve never felt such anxiety about the chaos, the lack of leadership’ The writer on his futuristic novel What We Can Know, climate change and the alarming lack of self-scepticism in Trump and Putin

‘“I think Saul Bellow was not a good influence on Martin. Bellow’s prose was a specifically American idiom, and that didn’t sit well on top of an educated English literary voice.”

But what about Money? I ask him.’

I interviewed Ian McEwan about Amis, Barnes, Nabokov, Trump and his new novel:

I've never seen Love Island (no shade to reality tv, I just never got into it)

And I should say, there's an exhibition of her work on at Chris Beetle's Gallery until 25th October www.chrisbeetles.com/exhibition/3...

November Back Garden View 2023, Islington by Melissa Scott-Miller

Start of Autumn, Vincent Terrace Gardens, Islington by Melissa Scott-Miller

View of Selfridges from Balderton Street Melissa Scott-Miller (born 1959)

A painting of a back garden in Hampstead by Melissa Scott-Miller

I love Melissa Scott-Miller's London paintings. She's so good at capturing the residential corners of the city, especially those little back gardens, parks, canals and the endless rows of terraces

yes exactly. I am very new to East London but that same corporate soullessness you describe pervades the whole bit around the new West Ham stadium

This is so awful. So sorry Sam.

It's a no brainer from the PR side to avoid them so I completely get why they don't want to play ball, but publications shouldn't waver in the face of it. And they should keep their critics on staff in the meantime!

Actors are fantastic at their job but they are not journalists or critics and the result of them talking to each other for a piece is often so....dull

I loathe the current trend of actors and other stars 'in conversation' with each other as they do press. Get a writer to follow someone around for a couple of days and write a Michael Schulman/Rachel Syme style profile, it's far more compelling read.

yes exactly, paying £100 for a chain meal feels like such a rip off

may steal this idea for Christmas!

Take a moment, and read...

This is similar to India, medical tourism is a big industry already there

horrible, I'm so sorry. Congratulations on the book!

Is It Abusive to Make Art About Your Children?

I’ll be thinking about Parul Sehgal’s latest essay for a good long while.

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to th...

'“I’m a damaged person too!” he says. “But I’m trying, you know? I’m trying to be truthful about it.”' Charlie Kaufman, bless him. (Please someone give him some money to make another film.)

In surprise twist, Armani's will instructs heirs to gradually sell fashion brand or seek listing Late designer Giorgio Armani has instructed heirs to gradually sell the fashion brand he created 50 years ago or seek a stock market listing, his will said, marking a surprising turn for a company highly protective of its independence and Italian roots.

The Armani will/succession saga is amusingly chaotic www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Literary criticism that is funny, accurate and understands its target (Dan Brown will be fine) is a joy to read

Good luck and godspeed to everyone at the mercy of the BFI website this morning.

'Dawn in London' (2008) by Stefan Bleekrode
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