Miranda France

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Articles

El Cumpleaños de Juan Ángel by Mario Benedetti

Jan 15, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Miranda France |Sophie Oliver |Kathryn Gray |Stephen Henighan

A novel about political awakening in free verse might not set every heart racing, but when the author is Mario Benedetti, one of Latin America’s best-loved poets, you know to expect humour, observation and inventive wordplay alongside the social criticism. Benedetti (1920–2009) was born in Montevideo into an Italian immigrant family. His parents, admirers of English literature, baptized him Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia – a long name for a small man.
Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation by Carlos F. Grigsby

Jan 15, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Stephen Henighan |Sophie Oliver |Kathryn Gray |Miranda France

The publication in 1888 of the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío’s collection Azul changed the way the Spanish language was written. Darío became the representative poet of modernismo, a movement that renewed Spanish verse, and later prose. As the poet moved to Chile, Argentina, Spain and France, the influence of his poetry spread.
‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’: Two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf

Jan 15, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Sophie Oliver |Kathryn Gray |Stephen Henighan |Miranda France

Two poems by Virginia Woolf have resurfaced. I found them tucked in the back of a folder of letters to her niece Angelica Bell in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Light verse, quickly drafted for her niece and nephew (Quentin Bell) in pencil on two sheets of the same grey-blue paper, “Angelica” and “Hiccoughs” delight in fantasy and invention.
Stories and vignettes from a celebrated film-maker

Oct 23, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Miranda France

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
The many lives of a great American author

Oct 2, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Alice Kelly |Joe Moran |ANDREW KNOLL |Miranda France

Ahead of next year’s centenary of The Great Gatsby, the inevitable revisiting of Fitzgerald gets under way. Two new biographies offer different approaches. Arthur Krystal’s Some Unfinished Chaos: The lives of F.
Fernanda Eberstadt’s youthful desire to test her limits

Sep 25, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Miranda France |Richard Smyth |Noreen Masud |Norma Clarke

Diogenes the Cynic (c.412-323 BC) provides not only the title but the guiding spirit for this book about people who use their bodies as sites of resistance or protest. The Greek philosopher also known as “Diogenes the Dog” slept, masturbated and defecated in the public square as a way to protest against political corruption. “Other dogs bite their enemies”, he said.
Everyone should keep a diary

Jun 12, 2023 | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Miranda France

Who keeps a diary these days? Really—can you be bothered? It’s so easy now to record our lives visually that the written record seems redundant and somewhat quaint. An evening out with friends is easily glossed with some photographs of what you ate, what you drank, a grinning selfie against a pretty background. In my case there may also be an image of my own foot and another of the inside of my hand—but the glitches can be deleted and the encounter smoothly memorialised in an attractive package.