In the quiet stillness of Marion County, a whisper began to resonate, a shifting narrative, a disturbance in what was known and familiar. On a Wednesday, when the weight of life and narratives hangs slightly lighter, Joel Ensey, the county attorney, revealed a moment of reflection: that perhaps the raid on the local newspaper, The […]
Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded The Nobel prize in literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
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A leading Shakespearean expert in Stratford-upon-Avon has turned down a request to help Boris Johnson write his book on the Bard. The prime minister allegedly was working on The Riddle of Genius instead of attending Cobra (Civil Contingencies Committee) meetings. Mr Johnson’s literary agent allegedly asked a Shakespeare expert to semi-dictate the content of the […]