🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Introducing Granta’s once-in-a-decade selection of the 20 most promising British novelists under 40. ✨ Meet Granta’s Best of #YoungBritishNovelists 2023, chosen as the most significant writers of their generation. Learn more: bit.ly/3QjyTPH British Council Arts

I finished this this evening: it is astonishing. Full to bursting with a mad, audacious genius, it's a thoroughly enjoyable carnival of the grotesque but a moving personal story too of an unloved underdog who - despite appearances - wishes harm to no one. Much recommended!

Etgar Keret: “When you say Israel is committing genocide, I don’t want to have any conversation with you.” k-larevue.com/en/etgar-keret… via K. Les Juifs, l'Europe, le XXIe siècle How empty the slogans on both sides seem in the light of Granta writer Etgar Keret’s humanity and depth.

Climate-crisis journey wins Wales Book of the Year bbc.in/4cRyPAt

Any organisation or political party can turn repressive. The Democrats are not immune. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Finally a defence of human rights - I feel profoundly relieved.

No idea how yesterday happened. None at all.

Needless to say, this is a scam. But thanks.

Congratulations to Granta author Han Kang, whose spare and steadfast lyricism has made her that rare thing: a Nobel prize winner addressing profound themes of human existence who is also a best-selling author.

Notes on Craft | Sigrid Rausing | Granta granta.com/notes-on-craft…

And the Walls Became the World All Around — reflections on a life via Financial Times In memory of Johanna, my closest friend. She would have loved this. on.ft.com/48QTSCa

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction | Writers' Trust of Canada goes to Martha Baillie for her exquisite memoir of navigating mental illness in the family, There is no Blue (Granta). writerstrust.com/awards/hilary-…

After all the critique of colonialism, why do UK and US leaders still talk as if they owned the world, and were capable of managing it?

And the Walls Became the World All Around by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing review – a dying writer’s journal 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/4ZDgqrR

The new US special relationship with their allies…. Really? We’re doing this?

Putin said captured Ukrainian soldiers would be treated like ‘terrorists’, and reports of summary executions, systematic torture, rape and mutilation of prisoners of war give us an idea of what that means. His statement is a blatant justification for war crimes.

SRT is charitable trust - we can’t complete these requirements without a consultant, absorbing resources that would otherwise go on grants. Insane bureaucracy, to what end? Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) - GOV.UK gov.uk/guidance/energ…