Almost 20 years later, Beckett was rejected with gusto again when he submitted two novels, Molloy, and Malone Dies. An American publisher dismissed them as unfunny, senseless and dull. “There’s no ...

The result was Poems on the Underground, a project that turns 40 this year and has been copied in cities around the world. Since 1986, many millions of London Underground passengers have seen posters ...

For the past week the most played songs in my 26-year-old Honda CRV have been ABBA’s “Fernando” (“There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright”) and Patti Smith’s “In My Blakean ...

“I spent a good part of my 15th year puzzling over drafts of poems by Dylan Thomas… often copying out each successive draft myself… trying to deduce... the reason for revisions in sound”. So wrote ...

Sylvia Plath, a brilliant American poet and novelist, captured the raw edges of mental illness and identity in mid-20th-century America. Her life, marked by early promise and profound loss, culminated ...

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We are often told how important it is to recycle, but not everything belongs in the recycling bin. A binman has recently opened up about how they can refuse to take away your waste if certain items ...

We're frequently reminded of the importance of recycling, but not everything is suitable for the recycling bin. A refuse collector recently shared that they can decline to collect your rubbish if ...