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Tag: literature

New Statesman review: ‘Darker With The Lights On’, David Hayden (Little Island Press, 2018)

The framing of this debut collection by Dublin-born Hayden is insistently absurdist.

books, fiction, literature, Reviews, short stories

TLS commentary: Man-made Wilderness

Wildcat and pine marten roam the forests; hawthorn and rosebay willowherb choke the country pathways. Fox and falcon flourish, flocks of rooks darken the fields, and beaver build in the upland waterways.

essay, literature, longread, rewilding, TLS, wilderness, wildlife

Illustration feature: Gargantua and Pantagruel

It’s hard to imagine anyone less obviously in tune with the spirit of the scandalous Renaissance priest François Rabelais than William Heath Robinson.

art, illustration, literature, rabelais

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