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Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany
Collection of fairytales gathered by historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth had been locked away in an archive in Regensburg for over 150 years- The Turnip Princess: one of the rediscovered fairytales
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Poem of the week: Sonnet XXXI by Sir Philip Sidney
Carol Rumens: The grammatical unexpectedness of the very first line arrests our attention in this stellar poem about the moon and sighing lovers -
New prize for radical writing announced
News: Bread and Roses award inaugural shortlist encompasses history of debt and demonisation of the working classes -
I may be laughably old fashioned and repressed, but I just don't agree with Anderson's implicit idea that all urges need to be satisfiedTheSighingDutchman
commenting on The Monogamy Gap, by Eric Anderson – review -
Dr Seuss's book of nudes
Alison Flood: The good doctor's reworking of Lady Godiva shows a genius cartoonist stretching himself – and realising his limits