The prize-winning poetry of the Azerbaijani president’s daughter and the Dubai Expo both lack inspirationYou might think of poets as poor – starving in their garrets, receiving tiny sums for their occasional slim volumes of verse and all that. Not so L…
On my radar: Edmund de Waal’s cultural highlights
The ceramicist and writer on the poetry of Louise Glück, the music of Max Richter and the best secret meeting spot in LondonBorn in Nottingham in 1964, Edmund de Waal is an artist, master potter and the author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, which won the…
Spies, lies and doublethink: Lea Ypi on growing up in Europe’s last communist state
She believed her parents loved Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist regime. But once Albania’s communist system collapsed, Lea Ypi began to realise nothing was as it seemed …• Read an extract from Lea Ypi’s memoir, FreeOne day, when Lea Ypi was a child, an empty Co…
‘They told me I was grown up enough to keep a secret’: exclusive extract from Silverview, John le Carré’s final novel
Morals and duty clash in le Carré’s tale of a bookseller caught in a spy leak• Fintan O’Toole on the last twist in le Carré’s tale• Writers reveal their favourite le Carré Continue reading…
The Guardian view on children’s books: take them seriously | Editorial
Good literature is fundamental to young people’s development. We must not devalue itGood children’s literature is a serious business. Not serious as in boring or “improving”, but serious in attention and ambition, serious about beauty and wonder, about…
Abdulrazak Gurnah: where to start with the Nobel prize winner
Novelist Maaza Mengiste on how the Nobel laureate has explored exile in all its forms throughout his careerFor more than three decades, Abdulrazak Gurnah has been writing with a quiet and unwavering conviction about those relegated to the forgotten cor…
The Long Song review – a vivid, harrowing staging of Andrea Levy’s novel
Chichester Festival theatreTara Tijani and Llewella Gideon are superb in this unblinking portrait of dignity amid moral horror, which follows a Jamaican woman looking back on her lifeAn additional sting in the tragedy of the death of Andrea Levy at the…
Ballerina Georgina Pazcoguin: ‘We owe it to younger dancers not to stay silent’
In her new memoir, New York City Ballet’s first Asian-American soloist speaks out about racism and sexual bullying in ballet. Now she wants to overhaul the industry from withinWhen Georgina Pazcoguin was 19 years old, she went to see a doctor about her…
Mary Beard: ‘Virgil was a radical rap artist of the first century BC’
The classics professor and author on being inspired by Mary Douglas and terrified by Beatrix PotterMy earliest reading memoryWhen I was about four, my mother read me Beatrix Potter’s The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. It was so scary (with the hunter’s …
会社で評価される「数字に強い」という能力の、意外に低いハードル
＜ビジネスの現場で求められる「数字に強い」という能力は、具体的にどういうもので、どうすれば身につけられるのか＞ ※この記事は、本の要約サービス「flier（フライヤー）」からの転載です。 数学的能力は一般的に、ビジネスパーソンに必須の能力とされています。実際、「どうも数字が苦手で」「数字を使って、きちんと報告してください」……こういった言葉を耳にする機会は多いのではないでしょうか。 そこで今回は、ビジネス数学教育家として活躍し、『そもそも「論理的に考える」ってどうすればできるの?』(三笠書房…