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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Cal Revely-Calder
There’s a Cornish word, mordros, for the relentless sound of the sea. You barely hear it in Falmouth harbour, outside the National Maritime Museum Cornwall; but inside their new exhibition, Surf!, it’s inescapable. The very first video, on a passage wall, gives you both that roar and a surfer’s-eye view of a perfect tube. You glide across water like blue-green glass. The wave curls and breaks above you, foam at its leading edge. This, to any surfer, is bliss.
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4 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Cal Revely-Calder
There's a Cornish word, mordros, for the relentless sound of the sea. You barely hear it in Falmouth harbour, outside the National Maritime Museum Cornwall; but inside their new exhibition, Surf!, it's inescapable. The very first video, on a passage wall, gives you both that roar and a surfer's-eye view of a perfect tube. You glide across water like blue-green glass. The wave curls and breaks above you, foam at its leading edge. This, to any surfer, is bliss.
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Cal Revely-Calder
If you're at sea level, and of average height, the horizon is about three miles away. At its narrowest point, the English Channel is about 20 miles wide. Hence, if you're halfway between Calais and Dover, and even if you're sailing on heavy swell, you'll sight no land to the north or south. Such, we can imagine, was the experience of 33 migrants, heading in a dinghy from France to Britain in the early hours of November 24 2021.
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1 month ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Cal Revely-Calder
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Cal Revely-Calder |Percival L. Everett
Bestselling author Sally Rooney's fourth book, Intermezzo, is one of the best novels published in 2024, writes Telegraph literary editor Cal Revely-Calder. Photo / Kalpesh LathigraThis year’s standout novels offer a mix of brains and fun, with side helpings of sex, God and rural Australia. Last year, many a leading novelist had something new to sell: Salman Rushdie, Sebastian Barry, Zadie Smith. But, by and large, it was nothing special.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Cal Revely-Calder
The 2024 Booker Prize was awarded to Samantha Harvey’s Orbital Credit: HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images It shouldn’t have been a surprise. This year’s Booker Prize was awarded to Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, a chronicle of one day on the International Space Station, as lived by six astronauts. On the eve of the Prize, many critics – me among them – were tipping Percival Everett’s James. Yet Orbital was outselling its rivals, and when the betting closed, Ladbrokes had Harvey and Everett...
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Cal Revely-Calder |Sally Rooney
Landing on bookstore shelves September 24, the Irish writer’s fourth book is a deeply millennial novel. But there’s more to her world view than many people admit, argues The Telegraph’s literary editor Cal Revely-Calder; Sally Rooney is a great political writer – her new novel Intermezzo is proof. Sally Rooney seems like a contradictory idea. On the one hand, you have the woman — now 33, in rural Ireland — who’s uninterested in fame and has a deep social conscience.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Cal Revely-Calder
Sally Rooney, pictured last year in Charleston Sophie Davidson Sally Rooney seems like a contradictory idea. On the one hand, you have the woman – now 33, in rural Ireland – who’s uninterested in fame and has a deep social conscience. In her rare spells in the public eye, she decries the bombardment of Gaza or discusses the notion of Marxist art. On the other, you have the brand – “Sally Rooney”, pinned above three bestselling novels and two major television adaptations – which offers the...
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Cal Revely-Calder
Cal Revely-CalderSeptember 1, 2024 at 4:00 AM·3 min read“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything”. Robert Browning’s melancholic dramatic monologue ‘Andrea del Sarto’, named for the Italian Renaissance painter, sees in autumn a lack, the diminishing of daylight hours only a further nail in the coffin of a chronic sense of disappointment. But as far as we’re concerned, the darker days of autumn simply encourage more nights in with a good book. Here are some to settle in with.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Cal Revely-Calder |Flora Bowen
Sally Rooney, author of Intermezzo Credit: Erik Voake/Getty Images for Hulu “Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything”.
