On my radar: Jasleen Kaur’s cultural highlights
The Turner prizewinner on the art of the Gaza Biennale, the joys of a queer community choir, and a poet who speaks to today’s injustices
What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade review – the afterlife of Paradise Lost
The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration
Poem of the week: Villanelle by John Davidson
A still potent vision of a Glasgow family in poverty at the end of the 19th century, clinging on to hope
‘It’s like having an affair’: Blackadder, the Beatles, Gavin & Stacey … the chemistry of successful writing duos
The long-awaited return of Ruth Jones and James Corden’s hit BBC sitcom represents the latest in a long line of successful creative duos. An author who writes with her husband examines why partnerships work so well
Mick Felton obituary
Other lives: Publisher and chief executive of Seren with an unwavering commitment to his authors
Poem of the week: The Jackdaw by William Cowper
The breezy wit of this nature study lightly carries darker thoughts about the human world
How Nikki Giovanni’s Black American consciousness changed the world
One of the foremost poets of the Black arts movement died on Monday but continues to inspire her literary children
The 25 best Australian books of 2024: Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Nam Le and more
Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best
A life in quotes: Nikki Giovanni
The poet, who died at 81 on Monday, was a leading figure of the Black Arts movement, writing at the intersection of love, creativity, gender, race and more
Nikki Giovanni’s poetry was a platform for truth-telling
There was a directness and urgency in her spoken and written voice but she could be mischievous and funny too
‘How many dead Palestinians are enough?’ The unbearable prescience of the late poet Refaat Alareer
The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change
Nikki Giovanni, acclaimed poet of the Black Arts Movement, dies aged 81
The award-winning US poet and author of works like Black Feeling, Black Talk and Those Who Ride the Night Winds has died after a third cancer diagnosis
Poem of the week: I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond of Hawthornden
A sonnet about disappointed love is enlivened by a large imagination and technical fluency of great vitality
The best books to give as gifts this Christmas
From a radical retelling of Huckleberry Finn to Al Pacino’s autobiography, novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the volumes they would love to find in their own stocking
‘Scotland has always been multilingual’: new Scottish makar Peter Mackay
As new national poet, the Gaelic speaker is looking at all of the languages spoken in the country, to see ‘what we can learn between them’