In this week's edition of Endnotes, we take a look at Ben Okri's Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted, a ...

How the long shadow of "Creep," a supernatural novel, a cameo from a future Walking Dead actor, and more played into the band ...

Regretful arts ­graduates and rabid ­modernist poetry fans will ­already be familiar with ­Madame Sosostris who featured in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, his 1922 ­rumination on ­fractured identity in ...

When the world was turned upside down ... Zimbabweans, Bolivians, Guatemalans, and Haitians went on cruises around the ...

Hay Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 38th spring edition in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, with more than 600 events over 11 days, 22 May–1 June 2025.

Bath Literature Festival is set to be an enthralling nine-day event running alongside the Bath Music Festival. With a ...

In a programme exploring Spanish culture and politics, Philip Dodd is joined by the influential novelist, columnist and translator Javier Marias - author ... his death? Ben Okri has been to ...

These 7 Nigerian authors aren’t just writing books—they’re shaping the future of African literature and putting Nigeria on ...