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24 Aug 2014: Simon Garfield makes a convincing case for why letter-writing still matters in the digital age, writes Anita Sethi -
7 Aug 2014: The artwork for Penguin’s new edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has left readers appalled. Here’s our selection of the five most preposterous and frankly poor covers ever printed – but what have we missed?
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Quiz,
11 Jul 2014:
Pamela Anderson has published a 1,209-word epic poem on her Facebook page. Why not see if you can tell her apart from Sylvia Plath?
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6 Jul 2014:
Thanks to the recently relaunched Poetry Archive, you can listen to the likes of Tennyson and Sylvia Plath reading their own verse, writes Anna Baddeley
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18 Jun 2014: From George Eliot to Ken Kesey, novelist Sarah Moss finds the best novels featuring these fascinating, sometimes frightening institutions
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Gallery (10 pictures),
6 Jun 2014:
Andrew Motion chooses his favourite poems read aloud by those who write them
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29 May 2014:
Robert McCrum: AQA boss Andrew Hall says 'we can't please everyone' - but he might have done some basic homework before sitting the exam
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28 May 2014: Andrew Motion: A decade ago we invented a great new online resource for poetry lovers. Mellifluous new bells and whistles have just made it even greater
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23 Apr 2014:
Philip Pullman heads a starry night of events by reading from Kurt Vonnegut's impassioned defence of the right to read
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2 Apr 2014:
I spent four years immersing myself in every word Hughes wrote; now the estate's co-operation has been withdrawn. What next? By Jonathan Bate
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31 Mar 2014:
Jonathan Bate, working on private records for some years, has had permissions to quote blocked 'out of the blue'
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20 Feb 2014:
The Nirvana frontman is being given a Concrete Resurrection by the town of Aberdeen. Which other celebrities are remembered in ways that would likely make them cringe?
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14 Feb 2014: A generous biography that focuses on Sylvia Plath's writing and relationships before she met Ted Hughes, writes Victoria Segal
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30 Jan 2014: New prize will start by reappraising 1963's fiction gongs, when John Updike's The Centaur won National Book Award ahead of The Bell Jar and V
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6 Nov 2013:
The novelist talks to Laura Barnett about the death of feminism, her first novel and the worst thing anyone ever said about her
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