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February 2025

Gwen Watkins obituary

Codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the second world war who went on to become a successful author

January 2025

‘There’s a majesty to grief’: TS Eliot poetry prize winner Peter Gizzi

The American writer won the prestigious prize for Fierce Elegy, a collection informed by the deaths of his family members. He explains why poetry is like friendship – and why he loves small words

December 2024

‘It’s like having an affair’: Blackadder, the Beatles, Gavin & Stacey … the chemistry of successful writing duos

The nature of ...
A sea anemone: I have pronounced their name incorrectly most of my life
Helen Sullivan

August 2024

Enrich your life with die deutsche Sprache

Letters: Joan Walley on how the efforts to promote the teaching of German in Stoke on Trent are bearing fruit. Plus letters from Veronica Hardstaff and Keith Hayward

July 2024

Other lives
Martha Whittome obituary
Other lives: Teacher and arts administrator who played an important part in the early days of the TS Eliot prize

April 2024

Brief letters
David Harewood’s Romeo presaged greatness
Brief letters: Acting royalty | Angela Rayner’s insult | Stereotyping librarians | Guardian’s sports writing | Liz Truss

January 2024

Seeking Michael Hastings, the missing man of British theatre

Best known for writing Tom and Viv, Hastings made his debut as a teenage dramatist in the 1950s. Now, his vivid ‘young man’s play’ Don’t Destroy Me is back

November 2023

The last word
Making your mind up: the best descriptions of indecision in literature
The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of dithering this month, from Hamlet to the ‘maybe-boyfriend’ of Anna Burns’s Milkman

October 2023

Louise Glück obituary

Terence Davies obituary

September 2023

Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution

A fashion journalist links the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot et al to their avant garde outlook on life

August 2023

The books of my life
Ayòbámi Adébáyò: ‘I read The Go-Between by LP Hartley and couldn’t stop crying’
The Booker-longlisted Nigerian author on the elementary appeal of Sherlock Holmes, crying with LP Hartley and the joys of rereading

April 2023

‘Extremely precarious’: Sophie Fiennes on documentary film-making in the UK

Exclusive: Directors struggle to fund work because of risk-averse commissioners and lack of resources, she says

December 2022

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis review – a classic laid bare

TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation

November 2022

Dinner With Groucho review – table for two mismatched geniuses

Frank McGuinness conjures the bizarre but real encounter between TS Eliot and the Marx brother in a leaden piece a talented cast can’t save

October 2022

TS Eliot’s women: the unsung female voices of The Waste Land

TS Eliot’s Waste Land was a barren place. But at least a spirit of optimism still prevailed

Kenan Malik

From the Guardian archive
The Waste Land reviewed: ‘so much waste paper’ – archive, 1923

Observer book of the week
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis – genesis of a masterpiece

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