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David Bowie is selected twice in Gatti’s survey. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images David Bowie is selected twice in Gatti’s survey. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images A collection of writers on their most cherished albums reveals who rates David Bowie higher than Leo Tolstoy and who fell in love with Joni Mitchell on a golf course Sat 5 Jun 2021 07.00 EDT The public airing of musical tastes doesn’t always bring out the best in human nature. The scope for being snob...

Shakespeares Globe has announced that Professor Farah Karim-Cooper and Lucy Cuthbertson have been confirmed as Co-Directors of Education, leading the largest education department in a theatre in the country. Lucy and Farah were joint interim leaders throughout the Globes year of closure, creating over 600 events and courses, and supporting the nations sudden critical need for quality home learning. Farah and Lucy take on the position after Patrick Spotiswoode, who served as the Director and Fou...

  >>Alex Marshall, The New York Times  Published: 03 Jun 2021 12:51 PM BdST Updated: 03 Jun 2021 12:51 PM BdST David Diop, the author of “At Night All Blood Is Black,” at the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, May 17, 2021. "At Night All Blood Is Black,” a short novel about a Senegalese soldier’s descent into madness while fighting for France in World War I, was named on Wednesday, Jun 2, as the winner of the International Booker Prize, the prestigious award for fiction translated into Eng...

‘Frightening’ Tale of Senegalese Soldier Wins International Booker Prize “At Night All Blood Is Black,” a novel written by David Diop and translated by Anna Moschovakis, had already received rave reviews. “At Night All Blood Is Black” was written by David Diop and translated from its original French by Anna Moschovakis. Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the chair of the International Booker judging panel, called it “an extraordinary novel.” Credit...From left: Elliott Verdier for The New Yo...

As our thoughts turn to life after the pandemic, authors from this year’s Hay festival choose books that have inspired lasting change in them

The artist on David Hockney’s move to France, a beautiful tale about an octopus, and the radio show he phones in to

A new biography of the great English sculptor reveals a complicated combination of passionate correspondent, loving mother and dedicated artist

  In Saturday’s books pages, Keith Ridgway talks to John Self about A Shock, his first book in a long time; Anne MacManus talks to Una Mullally about her debut novel, Mother Mother; and David O’Doherty talks to Patrick Freyne about his new children’s book. Reviews are Una Mullally on Rememberings by Sinéad O’Connor; Niamh Donnelly on Trouble by Philip Ó Ceallaigh; Catherine Taylor on the best new fiction in translation; Kevin Gildea on The Stranger Times by CK McDonne...

India’s diaspora communities are raising money for pandemic relief back home. British Indians are joining the battle to help India cope with COVID-19.

Barbara Hepworth photographed in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, in 1948 © Bowness, Hepworth Estate “She introduces [her career] with her own insightful words [...] covering subjects from the influence of ancient Greece and architecture, to the importance of gender in her work” “I would like to be an astronaut and go round the moon, and maybe remain in orbit forever,” wrote the British artist Barbara Hepworth in 1971. It sometimes seems that Hepworth’s sculp...