Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska has died aged 88, Associated Press reports.

“Her verse, seemingly simple, was subtle, deep and often hauntingly beautiful,” the report adds. “She used simple objects and detailed observation to reflect on larger truths, often ...

Andrew Miller has won the Costa Book of the Year prize for his novel Pure.

The decision is understood to have been arrived at after some considerable controversy among the judges, with some supporting the strongly tipped biography of ...

The Dublin Review of Books is pleased to announce that it has joined the European network of cultural journals Eurozine.

Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since that time, a variety of European cultural magazines have ...

Former German vice-chancellor Joschka Fischer visits Dublin on Monday (January 23rd) to speak on the theme “The End of the European Project?”. He is joined on the podium by former Irish Times foreign policy editor Paul Gillespie and David O’Sullivan, ...

The Scottish poet John Burnside has won the TS Eliot prize for poetry for his collection Black Cat Bone, the Guardian reports.

Burnside took the £15,000 prize for his eleventh collection, beating a strong list, including the poet laureate, ...

In Babelia (January 14th), the literary supplement of El País, Jorge M Reverte is reviewing Tierras de sangre. Europe entre Hitler y Stalin, the Spanish translation of Timothy Snyder’s well received Bloodlands (published by Vintage).

The book gives ...

The [Andreas] Papandreou era in Greece was, writes Georges Prévélakis, “characterized by the prime minister’s jocular statement that it was the right of any political official or civil servant to ‘allow himself a little gift’, providing he did not exceed ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe writes from Rome on January 6th, 1787: “Again I have some more ecclesiastical matters to tell you about. We spent a roaming Christmas Eve visiting the churches where services were being held. One of the most ...

“The endless malleability of digital writing,” writes Nicholas Carr in the Wall Street Journal, “promises to overturn a whole lot of our assumptions about publishing.

“When Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type a half-millennium ago, he also gave us immovable ...

“There were some circumstances attending the remarkable frost in January 1776 so singular and striking,” writes the Hampshire clergyman and naturalist Gilbert White in a letter to Daines Barrington, “that a short detail of them may not be unacceptable.

“The ...