Dance. The song is here. Weeping is song, water flowing out of eyes, struck by the ray. Laughter, when it sounds low, purrs, one won't get cold. Stretch out your hand and take the apple, grab it, take these letters in which we are as touching as people always are for each other: leaning toward [&hel
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In November 2023 I was delighted once again to be asked to return to the Danube town of Krems in Lower Austria to host several of the talks and interviews making up this remarkable gathering of authors, academics, journalists and performers from all over Europe, the 15th ELit festival. It is akin
After a baptism of fire at my first Frankfurt Book Fair – Europe’s biggest trade fair for books – a few weeks previously, Vienna’s book fair-cum-literary festival, ‘Buch Wien’, from 8-12 November 2023, was a much cosier affair. True to Austrian form, the vibe was friendly and welcoming,
Thursday, 1 February 2024; 7:30 pm Tickets: £10 [£8 concessions] [A limited amount of tickets are available at £5 for people who are unwaged] David Ellis’s School of Thought presents Concretia, an evening of spoken reportage, illustrated essays & psycho-acoustics on doubt and troublesome rh
I confess that before this novel came my way, I knew almost nothing of the Nobel prize-winning author Grazia Deledda. Fortunately, this edition comes with an introduction by the translator, Graham Anderson: Deledda was a prolific novelist, dramatist and short story writer, who counted among her admi
