Seeking Michael Hastings, the missing man of British theatre
Best known for writing Tom and Viv, Hastings made his debut as a teenage dramatist in the 1950s. Now, his vivid ‘young man’s play’ Don’t Destroy Me is back
November 2023
The last word
Making your mind up: the best descriptions of indecision in literature
The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of dithering this month, from Hamlet to the ‘maybe-boyfriend’ of Anna Burns’s Milkman
October 2023
Louise Glück obituary
Terence Davies obituary
September 2023
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution
A fashion journalist links the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot et al to their avant garde outlook on life
August 2023
The books of my life
Ayòbámi Adébáyò: ‘I read The Go-Between by LP Hartley and couldn’t stop crying’
The Booker-longlisted Nigerian author on the elementary appeal of Sherlock Holmes, crying with LP Hartley and the joys of rereading
April 2023
‘Extremely precarious’: Sophie Fiennes on documentary film-making in the UK
Exclusive: Directors struggle to fund work because of risk-averse commissioners and lack of resources, she says
December 2022
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis review – a classic laid bare
TS Eliot’s life and influences are meticulously investigated in this impressive account of artistic creation
November 2022
Dinner With Groucho review – table for two mismatched geniuses
Frank McGuinness conjures the bizarre but real encounter between TS Eliot and the Marx brother in a leaden piece a talented cast can’t save
October 2022
TS Eliot’s women: the unsung female voices of The Waste Land
TS Eliot’s Waste Land was a barren place. But at least a spirit of optimism still prevailed
Kenan Malik
From the Guardian archive
The Waste Land reviewed: ‘so much waste paper’ – archive, 1923
Observer book of the week
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis – genesis of a masterpiece
May 2022
The love song of TS Eliot: intense letters reveal the passion behind the pen
The great poet’s newly released missives to his lost love put the lie to his aloof image – but were dismissed by the man himself as fantasy
April 2022
Weatherwatch
TS Eliot’s The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times
Don’t forget the centenary of AE Housman’s Last Poems
Brief letters
Still living and partly living with TS Eliot
The Guardian view on TS Eliot’s modernism: between high and low culture
