For this issue’s cover, inimitable actress TILDA SWINTON talks to the novelist Deborah Levy In this landmark conversation Tilda looks into both the past and the future, seeking out the contours of how encounters with the work of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Muriel Spark shaped her worldview. We are invited to eavesdrop on two cultural giants connecting through the time-honoured method of literary exchange.
The Book of the Season is THE ODYSSEY, a singable story of heroes and gods inhabiting the world’s first archipelago and the perfect read for slow summer journeys, outbound or inbound. Contributors include: Justin E. H. Smith, Rebecca May Johnson, Nicholas Jubber, Eliot Haworth, Jeremy Lewis, Sabine Mirlesse and Rob Doyle.
BUY NOWPART 1
Indefinite
Snippets
The Interview: TILDA SWINTON by Deborah Levy — ‘I always think that becoming a performer has been my way of writing all these years’
Added context
PART 2
Introduction: The truest fantasy by Seb Emina
History: To hunt down Homer by Justin E. H. Smith — To find and eliminate him
Food: A very old sausage by Rebecca May Johnson — Blood, fat and envy
Op-ed: The popular one-eyed monster by Nicholas Jubber — Was the Cyclops unfairly treated?
Theatre: An Odyssean event by Eliot Haworth — Adapting in Amsterdam
Fashion: Trojan horsemen by Jeremy Lewis — An old trick with a new feature
Material: Goodbye, sea silk by Sabine Mirlesse — You can’t buy it
Intensely Searching
Diary of a first read by Rob Doyle — Let’s do this
Do it yourself
Five crossword clues to which the answer is ‘The Odyssey’ by Daniel Levin Becker — The game is to work out why
The Penguin Classics
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This July, the Happy Reader Book Club gathered in Amsterdam, in honour of The Black Tulip, our Book of the Season for summer 2018.
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