Barry Langford
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- Aug 27, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Late Fame: this tale of literary redemption is sad, tender and opaque (opens the original)
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Kent Jones’s carefully wrought film Late Fame offers a wry eulogy for vanished bohemia and a deft meditation on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous dictum that “there are no second acts in American lives”. Almost half a century ago, Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) was a minor figure on the New York poetry scene. But as Ed himself acknowledges: “I had my moment. It passed.” The decades since the publication of his solitary volume of verse, Way Past Go, have passed in utter obscurity. So returning home one w
Your summer reading list: five of the best non-fiction reads of 2026 so far, according to our experts (opens the original)
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The best summer companion is a good book. This year has already given us some truly brilliant ones, making it really hard to whittle down the best. These five non-fiction reads will also transport you all over the world – from 1960s India and Afghanistan to Ancient Greece and Hitler’s Germany – without ever having to leave home. Read more: Your summer fiction reading list: five of the best reads of 2026 so far, according to our experts Lyse Doucet, the seasoned BBC journalist and current foreign
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