Wordsworth rewrote his epic poem, The Prelude, Taylor Swift re-recorded her album Fearless. But can the remake ever replace the original?
In her essay Last Words, Joan Didion describes the literary detritus left behind in the wake of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide: “a discrete body of work
Any time-traveller arriving in Britain this winter could be forgiven for thinking they’d landed in a particularly odd fever-dream of the eighties: Princess Diana is
Everyone knows Joni Mitchell. She’s the singer of Love Actually tear-jerkers, the one-time lover of Leonard Cohen, and a Canadian hippie prairie waif. Put on
Scottish university students were banned from socialising outside their households, and told not to enter restaurants, bars, and pubs last week. The Scottish rules for
Mid-way through this week, I realised that I was listening to a playlist made up exclusively of Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, and reading books
Folklore – Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album she released in a surprise move last Friday – is a triumph. Heart-breaking, story-telling, quiet – it’s everything Lover (2019) was
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