OurDailyRead

Our Daily Read – Book News, Reviews & Comment

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Fiction
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Under 7s
  • 8-12yr
  • Teen
  • Education
  • Graphic
  • Art
  • Crime
  • Poetry
  • History
  • Bio
  • Obituary

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Queer review – Daniel Craig is needy, horny and mesmeric in Guadagnino’s erotic drama

Craig plays an American expat living indolently in Mexico City in this sometimes uproarious adaptation of William Burroughs’ autobiographical novel

Harvest review – Athina Rachel Tsangari’s folk non-horror is an exasperating experience

Dastardly deeds are afoot in an imagined medieval village with unscrupulous landowners in this directionless study of inauthenticity

I’m Still Here review – loving family negotiates the horror of Brazil’s military rule

Walter Salles’s first drama feature since 2012 tells the story of the Paivas, whose sunny 70s existence is wrecked by the arrest and disappearance of their father

The Order review – Jude Law leads neo-Nazi-hunting thriller with confident authority

Law is commanding opposite an icy Nicholas Hoult in true-crime story about the takedown of a far right militia in the 1980s

And Their Children After Them review – racism and revenge festers in smalltown France

Nineties-set drama adapted from the bestselling novel zeroes in on tensions in a post-industrial community, sparked by a feud over a motorbike

Garry Starr: Classic Penguins review – brilliantly ticklish riff on a stack of literary tomes

Dressed as the publisher’s emblem, in orange flippers and not much else, the ingenious comic delivers a dizzy series of droll visual routines

Edinburgh film festival 2024: 12 of the best movies on show

From uplifting drama to gonzo body-horror and an intensely personal documentary, here are our favourite picks

The future of UK literary festivals: ‘There is no magic fairy’

After sponsor Baillie Gifford ended its support, book festivals urgently need new models to survive financially

Ugly Sisters review – deft duo riff on Germaine Greer’s encounter with a trans woman

Charli Cowgill and Laurie Ward revisit an article by the author of The Female Eunuch in this thought-provoking hour

Book festivals previously sponsored by Baillie Gifford seek donations

Partnerships ended over the investment firm’s ties to fossil fuel and Israel, leaving nine book festivals including Hay, Edinburgh and Cheltenham in need of funding

Our Baillie Gifford boycotts aren’t about tearing down the arts – they’re about building them up

Finance is always an issue, but surely we are entitled to expect a higher moral stance from our cultural institutions, says writer Tom Jeffreys

‘I wouldn’t call it a victory’: Fossil Free Books organisers on Baillie Gifford’s exit from literary festival funding

Despite its role in bringing the asset manager’s sponsorships to an end, the activist group has faced criticism that ‘not a dime has been divested from fossil fuels’. Four of its campaigners speak out

The Observer view on Baillie Gifford sponsorship row: writing is on the wall for book lovers

Now the investment fund is pulling out of literary festivals, what other sponsors will dare expose themselves to the scrutiny of Fossil Free Books?

Baillie Gifford cancels all remaining sponsorships of literary festivals

Cambridge, Stratford, Wigtown and Henley festivals say firm ended deals after protests over its links to Israel and fossil fuels

Baillie Gifford will no longer sponsor Borders and Cheltenham literature festivals

Investment management firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel sector put sponsorship deals under pressure

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
  • Trump as Don Corleone: ‘Every time he does somebody a favour … he expects a quid pro quo’
  • 70 brilliant books for the summer
  • ‘Failure was my thing’: Women’s prize winner Virginia Evans on her long journey to success
  • The Guardian view on literature in wartime: words do not stop when the bombing begins
  • Mary Hooper obituary
  • ‘We can’t give up on Afghans’: Lyse Doucet on the remarkable ‘people’s history’ that won her the Women’s prize
  • More of the Christchurch shooter’s online comments have been uncovered, New Zealand researchers say. Does it change the picture?
  • The best Father’s Day gifts in the UK for dads, grandads, uncles and friends
  • ‘Are audiobooks cheating?’ We answered your questions about our 100 top novels list
  • The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
  • Ruth Ozeki: ‘All my books are an attempt to recreate Charlotte’s Web’
  • The Long Drop review – Denise Mina’s whisky-soaked tale of triple murder is horribly gripping
  • The Twitnam Summer by Hester Grant review – Swift, Gay and Pope’s season in the sun
  • How to Love the World by Ilka Tampke review – a woman is trapped by a fallen tree
  • Women’s prize: Virginia Evans wins for fiction and Lyse Doucet takes award for nonfiction
  • The Artist by Lucy Steeds audiobook review – a sensory feast in Provence
  • ‘Pleasure and invigoration’: Diana Evans wins UK’s Jhalak prose prize
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • Tell us: what is your favourite beach read?
  • Lovers XXX by Allie Rowbottom review – a wild journey through the 80s LA porn scene
  • Stolen Revolution by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati review – Iran’s recent history explained
  • Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates
  • The End of Everything by M John Harrison review – near-future visions from an SF master
  • Bill Jordan obituary
  • I have found the perfect book group – we discuss problematic text messages
  • ‘I want to be other people’s cautionary tale’: how do you financially prepare for a parent’s death?
  • ‘Wear something that makes you feel silly!’ Can Austin Kleon’s tips put the spark back in my life?
  • Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer review – fun in the Tuscan sun
  • A British Childhood by Frank Cottrell-Boyce review – are we raising a bookless generation?
  • Ruth Artmonsky obituary

Contact www.ourdailyread.com   Terms of Use