We said that “sales of Penguin classics have seen a 65% increase since the lockdown began”. In fact, these books saw a sales spike of 65% during the week before lockdown, while bookshops were still open (“Tolstoy, Steinbeck, Eliot... why are so many people turning to literary classics?”, 26 April, page 46).
Must try harder: culture quiz fans got in touch to tell us that the correct option was missing from Q5, because the playwright August Strindberg was also a painter; that a) was the wrong answer for Q6 on Puccini heroines; and that in Q9 the song title Bella Ciao was transposed as Ciao Bella. The quiz is at gu.com/culture-quiz-26April (Puzzles, the New Review, 26 April, page 36).
Other recently amended articles include:
The marvels of Madeira: one of the great unsung Portuguese wines
America’s fracking boom flounders as global prices and demand collapse
Test, test, test: can Britain find a way out of lockdown?
Write to the Readers’ Editor, the Observer, York Way, London N1 9GU, email observer.readers@observer.co.uk, tel 020 3353 4736
