BooksObituaryNorman LevineNovelist with a painter's perceptionThe Canadian writer Norman Levine, who has died, aged 81, of a heart attack, saw language as a straitjacket that dulls excitement. He wanted his writing to come off the page with the immediacy of the abstract painting he encountered in the Cornish artists' community of St Ives, where he lived for 30 years. He described the encounter in an essay, Sometimes It Works, which was published in John Metcalf and JR Struthers's How Stories Mean (1993). Read More...
Paris This article is more than 1 year oldNotre Dame’s uncovered tombs start to reveal their secretsThis article is more than 1 year oldTwo sarcophaguses unearthed in reconstruction work after 2019 fire identified as elite canon of cathedral and young cavalier
Two lead sarcophaguses discovered buried under the nave at Notre Dame Cathedral in what was described as an “extraordinary and emotional” find have begun giving up their secrets, French scientists announced on Friday. Read More...
The ObserverCrime fictionReviewThe author of bestseller The Appeal returns with a complex thriller that includes brilliant pastiches of Enid Blyton
Janice Hallett topped charts last year with her debut, The Appeal, a thriller about a murder in the sleepy town of Lower Lockwood told entirely in a mix of texts, emails and documents. Hallett’s second novel, The Twyford Code, is innovative in a different way: it is a transcription of 200 audio files that have been found on the iPhone 4 of missing ex-convict Steven Smith. Read More...