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Stop gatekeeping books: on audiobooks, ebooks and what makes reading “real”

Why is somebody only considered to have truly read a book if they’ve read it with their eyes, on paper? This is an argument that you’d think would have run its course by now, but apparently it has not. If you listen to a book, or read it on a...

SEE: Something Special #108 – Emma Barnett on blood in art

Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something...

Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature – how she discovered new possibilities within language

Laura Jansen, University of Bristol For over four decades, Anne Carson has been quietly redrawing the map of contemporary literature. Poet, translator, classicist, essayist, performer and visual artist, she has produced a body of work that refuses...

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