‘Sometimes she publishes notes she’s scribbled on her hand’: Édouard Louis on 10 reasons to love Anne Carson
The French author discovered Carson on a bus while stranded in a snowstorm and has been enthralled by her fearless imagination ever since
Digested week
Digested week: Don’t worry about the plague, go and read some Anne Carson
Emma Brockes
The world may be going to hell in a handcart, but at least now I get to say I know a Nobel prize winner
‘Infinite genius’: Yiyun Li on Anne Carson
When her sons died, the Book of Goose author turned to Grief Lessons, Carson’s translation of four plays by Euripides. She reflects on the ‘life sustaining’ work of an extraordinary writer
8 October 2026
Where to start with
Where to start with: Anne Carson
‘Delights await!’: Margaret Atwood and other writers on Nobel winner Anne Carson
Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026 – as it happened
7 October 2026
Anne Carson and Can Xue favourites to win Nobel prize in literature
The Canadian poet and Chinese experiment writer are the bookmakers’ favourites to win, with Haruki Murakami, Gerald Murnane and Margaret Atwood also in the mix
April 2026
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Patrick Stewart reads Shakespeare’s sonnets – all 154 of them
The great Shakespearean shares his passion project, there’s a sneak peek of Sam Ryder’s Jesus Christ Superstar and Back to the Future: The Musical hits reverse
September 2024
Brie Larson to make her West End debut in revenge tragedy Elektra
Oscar-winning actor will perform the lead role in Anne Carson’s adaptation of Sophocles’ play in London and Brighton next year
March 2024
Poetry roundup
The best recent poetry – review roundup
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le; Three Births by K Patrick; After You Were, I Am by Camille Ralphs; Wrong Norma by Anne Carson; Poems 1968-2020 by Nikki Giovanni
February 2024
Book of the day
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson review – unjoined-up thinking at its best
The poet’s new collection of mainly prose pieces on subjects as diverse as Flaubert, snow and Roget’s Thesaurus is a nonstop triumph
June 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 books about missing persons
These interrupted stories, in fiction and real life, are powerfully moving and key into a universal anxiety
November 2022
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Anne Carson and Mary Gaitskill honoured by Royal Society of Literature
New authors chosen for the RSL International Writers programme, championing ‘the power of literature to transcend borders’, are announced
October 2022
Salman Rushdie among favourites for this year’s Nobel prize for literature
The novelist, who was stabbed earlier this year as he was about to give a public lecture, is highly placed by bookmakers to win this year’s award
February 2022
Shall I compare thee to a frozen food aisle? How to write a love poem in 2022
In a world where emotions are cheap and the truth even cheaper, how can we write authentic odes to our beloved? Sharon Olds, Maged Zaher and Lil Nas X show one poet the way
January 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths
From James Joyce to Ali Smith and Chigozie Obioma, the archetypal stories of the ancients have inspired some of our best fiction
November 2021
Top 10s
From Paradise Lost to the Lord of the Rings: top 10 epics in fiction
From classic tales such as Paradise Lost to ‘counter-epics’ by Anne Carson and Tim O’Brien, these stories lend real grandeur to their subjects
May 2021
The best recent poetry – review roundup
The Trojan Women by Anne Carson; The Gododdin by Gillian Clarke; Hotel Raphael by Rachel Boast; American Mules by Martina Evans; pandemonium by Andrew McMillan
October 2020
Nobel prize for literature tipped to make safe pick after years of scandal
Having been postponed in 2018, last year’s return drew heavy fire for the selection of Peter Handke, so experts expect a cautious choice this week
