Anne Serre

2 weeks ago | thebookerprizes.com | Anne Serre |Mark Hutchinson |Max Porter |Solvej Balle

The six books on the shortlist have been chosen by the 2025 judging panel: bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter; prize-winning poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi; writer and Publishing Director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal; author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Anton Hur; and award-winning singer-songwriter Beth Orton.

Jun 18, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Anne Serre |Mark Hutchinson

Photo by Matthew Septimus, courtesy of Harper's Magazine. It is dangerous to excel at two different things. You run the risk of being underappreciated in one or the other; think of Michelangelo as a poet, of Michael Jordan as a baseball player. This is a trap that Lewis Lapham has largely avoided. For the past half century, he has been getting pretty much equal esteem in a pair of distinct roles: editor and essayist.