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Interview
‘We recycle each other through our experiences and lives’: Poet Ciarán Hodgers on his new book
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What's On
From Jo Brand to Graham Norton: Introducing Manchester Literature Festival 2018
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Preview
The arts project that asks: Is it really grim up North?
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Comment
What this 1995 book about blindness can tell us about censorship today
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Review
“Expertly crafted and generously performed spoken word”: The Way I See It @ Everyman Theatre
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Comment
Wuthering Heights’ portrayal of love was revolutionary – and it’s as moving now as ever
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Review
Well Lit: ‘Elise’, Still Unknown
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Review
Quartier Perdu: witty, genuinely unsettling and unashamedly literary
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Review
“A spectacle that will eventually break your heart”: Virginie Despentes’ Vernon Subutex 1
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Review
Well Lit: ‘Paris was a woman’, Bristol its admirer
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Review
A new love for an ancient art: Paradise Bride @ Hamilton House’s Storytelling Sundays
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Interview
A Q&A with poet Polly Atkin for WildLines @ The Leeds Library
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Review
Well Lit: Remi Kanazi @ Palestine Museum, Bristol
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Review
Keisha Thompson’s Man on the Moon: A considered and crafted love letter
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Review
Fiction meets biography in Reinhard Kleist’s graphic novel about Nick Cave
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Review
Banthology: Short stories from the nations Trump wants silenced
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Interview
Writer C.D. Rose: “A good short story can get into your soul”
