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Quote of the Day by Anna Akhmatova: ‘Dostoyevsky knew a lot but not everything. He, for instance, thought that if you kill a human you'll turn into…’

Quote of the Day by Anna Akhmatova questioned Fyodor Dostoevsky's view on guilt after violence. She observed people committing acts and then attending evening theatre. Her experiences during Stalin's terror revealed a darker human capacity. This suggests violence does not always destroy the perpetrator's psyche. Societies can become accustomed to…

The Economic Times

DM Thomas obituary

Author, poet and scholar of Russian literature whose greatest success came with his controversial 1981 novel The White Hotel

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Four Seasons Gone by Patricia McCarthy

A tribute to the spirit and resilience of Ukrainians who have kept hope, and poetry, alive since the Russian invasion

The Guardian - UK

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Top 10 love poems

For Valentine’s, or really any other day, here are some works by poets from Plath to Rilke that express some of our own most intimate feelings

The Guardian - UK

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng review – an all-too-close dystopia

A boy’s search for his mother, a freedom-loving poet who opposes America’s authoritarian regime, makes for a shaky follow-up to Little Fires Everywhere

The Guardian - UK

Russian artists grapple with the same dilemma as their Soviet forebears – to stay or to go?

With few exceptions, most Russian artists who oppose the war have been relegated to releasing songs, posting artwork or publishing articles on social media.

The Conversation

Writer Ocean Vuong: ‘Beauty is medicinal to me. It’s not useless’

The Vietnamese-American poet on the legacy of war, navigating grief — and turning invisibility into a superpower

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