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In the House of Mozart: A review of Matthew McDonald’s debut poetry collection, ‘Gran Partita’
Gran Partita, the debut poetry collection by Matthew McDonald, is a curatorial project in book form. McDonald is an Australian…
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A Butterfly Flying With One Wing: Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu
The shock of walking into a room and discovering yourself between two parallel mirrors, each reflecting infinite lines of yourself…
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Reading the Season: Spring
It’s been a long, cold winter, but spring is finally on the way, and bringing new books with it.
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“It’s About People Trying to Love Each Other and Failing”: Madeleine Dunnigan on her debut novel ‘Jean’
When Madeleine Dunnigan appears on my laptop screen, the day before her debut novel is published, she’s wearing a citrus…
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“Love, or contempt, or both”: Laurie Kynaston on Man and Boy at the National Theatre
It’s a Wednesday evening, just after six, and I’m standing by the National Theatre stage door.
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Cold’s 26 Most Anticipated Reads Of 2026
From Coyoacán to Mitteleuropa, to London, Baghdad, and back again, books are taking us places this year.
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London’s Literary Scene: the Hottest Readings to Find a Lover Who Writes
“I literally do not care about the readings 90 per cent of the time”: girls in backless dresses whisking dates…
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Rebecca Perry on Her Debut ‘May We Feed the King’
“Do you think a part of you wants to escape reality?” A scene curator who builds portraits of lives lived…
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Six Scottish Poets We’re Reading for Burns Night
As skirts are hiked mid-ceilidh and forks are raised above plates of haggis, we’re looking beyond Scotland’s national bard and…
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TRANSPOSE at the Barbican
For close to fifteen years, CN Lester has run TRANSPOSE: a versatile and fluid evening of performance, now in its…
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When I say “ban,” people ask, ‘What did you do?’
That’s the thing: Hamza Ashraf didn’t do anything.
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Babel Beast: a tour-du-monde in a one-woman cabaret
The one-woman cabaret show opens with an overwhelming auditory collage of songs and sounds from French, Italian, and British pop…
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Reading in the Dark: Our Picks for Nonfiction November
The sky is ink black outside the train window, mince pies glint from every shop counter, and ice crystals crackle…
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“I’m glad that I didn’t grow up in a castle”: Nelio Biedermann on writing Lázár
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Weird Books are Back: Cold’s Guide to the 2026 Booker Prize Longlist
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