50 best cult books: Our critics present a selection of history’s most notable cult writing. Some is classic. Some is catastrophic. All of it had the power to inspire. [Telegraph]
Orwell prize goes to lament for Palestinian landscape: Britain’s most prestigious award for political writing, the Orwell book prize, has been won by Raja Shehadeh’s Palestinian Walks, a victory further distinguished by such strong competition that the judges felt the need to extend this year’s shortlist. The subtitle of Shehadeh’s book is Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, and it describes how over 40 years the West Bank he loves has been steadily taken over by Israeli settlements, and how the destruction of a beloved landscape mirrors the damage to Palestinian identity. [Guardian]
Doris Lessing: prize fighter: At 88, Doris Lessing is still raging – at communists, war, Mrs Thatcher, the ‘bloody Swedes’ who awarded her the Nobel Prize… but most of her venom is reserved for the subject of what she says will be her final book – her mother. [Telegraph]
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