It’s the USA’s 250th birthday this weekend, so in today’s newsletter, Anthony Burgess himself attempts to put his finger on what makes the country great. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange): anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/on-america...

It’s the USA’s 250th birthday this weekend, so in today’s newsletter, Anthony Burgess himself attempts to put his finger on what makes the country great. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange): anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/on-america...

Dave Eggers in Manchester!! Can’t wait to hear him discuss his new book CONTRAPPOSTO with @luciaoc.bsky.social at the Anthony Burgess Foundation on Thursday! (I may or may not bring all 83 issues of my @mcsweeneys.net collection with me!)

Neu im Büro - das passende Buch für diese Tage. Ein Kinderbuch von ANTHONY BURGESS in deutscher Erstübersetzung: Das Land wo die Eiscreme wächst birgit-boellinger.com/2026/06/30/b...

In this week’s newsletter, we explore the friendship of Anthony Burgess and Umberto Eco, the Italian author of The Name of the Rose. Medieval Sherlock Holmes! A novel in need of an index! The spectacular benefits of reading! It’s all in here… anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/in-the-eco...

In this week’s newsletter, we explore the friendship of Anthony Burgess and Umberto Eco, the Italian author of The Name of the Rose. Medieval Sherlock Holmes! A novel in need of an index! The spectacular benefits of reading! It’s all in here… anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/in-the-eco...

In this week’s newsletter, find out about Anthony Burgess’s collaboration with the late David Hockney in the 1991 book Hockney's Alphabet. Burgess took on the letter X. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/an-x-for-d...

Join the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a public event exploring Umberto Eco’s connection with British culture, 10 years after his death. ‘Umberto Eco in Britain’ 📍 Anthony Burgess Foundation, M1 5BY 📅 Friday 26 June 2026 at 15.00. Find out more: https://ow.ly/4Kko50Z73Pf

A bad literary take for the ages. Books ARE language and expecting writers not to use the full breadth of it is like asking a footballer not to kick the ball. Anthony Burgess would view this opinion as giving off a 'mephitic hogo'.

In this week’s newsletter, find out about Anthony Burgess’s collaboration with the late David Hockney in the 1991 book Hockney's Alphabet. Burgess took on the letter X. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/an-x-for-d...

En el 85º aniversario de la muerte del escritor irlandés James Joyce, José de María Romero Barea reseña la versión reducida del Ulises que fue encontrada entre los papeles del ya fallecido Anthony Burgess.

Published today in paperback along with Burgess's Shorter Ulysses!

It’s Bloomsday — & publication day for the paperback edition of A Shorter Ulysses: Anthony Burgess’s abridgement of James Joyce’s celebrated, famously challenging masterpiece. Always wanted to read Ulysses but never managed it? Here’s your answer! 📖

In celebration of Bloomsday next week, we are honouring an unsung figure in James Joyce’s life: his wife, Nora. Find out what Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) has to say about her in an article from 1982. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/blooms-and...

Anyone slightly amused by this dynamic should read Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess, whose protagonist is a gay writer whose brother-in-law becomes Pope. It's one of the best novels I've ever read.

Umberto Eco in Britain 📅 Friday 26 June ⏰ 3-6.30pm 📍 @anthonyburgess.bsky.social 🎟️ Free – Booking required A special public event, exploring how Eco interacted with British literature, thought, media, and intellectual traditions. Tickets and info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/umberto-ec...

Now this is the sort of gathering of masked people on the streets of an Irish city that we can endorse!

In the week of Marilyn Monroe’s centenary, our latest newsletter explores Anthony Burgess’s (author of A Clockwork Orange) thoughts on her films and her status as a symbol of American celebrity. Subscriber for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Join the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a public event exploring Umberto Eco’s connection with British culture, 10 years after his death. ‘Umberto Eco in Britain’ 📍 Anthony Burgess Foundation, M1 5BY 📅 Friday 26 June 2026 at 15.00. Find out more: https://ow.ly/4Kko50Z73Pf

Kylie did it better.

Paul Morley retracing the steps of Anthony Burgess on #BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Music! Comedy! Talks! And… Umberto Eco?! It’s all happening at the Burgess Foundation in June. Click through to find out all our events listings, and how to engage with the Burgess Foundation if you are not in Manchester: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/june-2026-...

My article revisiting authorship of Anthony Burgess's subtitles for Cyrano de Bergerac out in @transpaces.bsky.social! www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... Draws on archival material at @anthonyburgess.bsky.social & @ransomcenter.bsky.social, w/ thanks! #filmtranslationhistory #translationhistory

As the Guardian has just announced their 100 greatest novels of all time, in this week's newsletter, we look at literary lists, the forming of a canon, and the strangeness of Anthony Burgess’s own selection of favourites. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/shooting-t...

You can read the winning review of the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism now in the Observer. Ciarán O'Rourke won for his fantastic review of Occult Elvis by Miguel Connor. Read it, along with the runners-up, here: observer.co.uk/culture/the-...

You are invited to join us on 26 June 2026 at the Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester for a special free public event, exploring the relationship between Umberto Eco (author of The Name of the Rose) and British culture. More details and to book for free: www.anthonyburgess.org/event/umbert...

At the prize ceremony for the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize this week, Susannah Clapp gave a brilliantly impassioned speech about the importance of arts criticism. The Observer have just published it, and you can read it for free here: observer.co.uk/culture/the-...

Anthony Burgess was rarely photographed without his trademark Schimmelpenninck Duet cigar. In this week’s newspaper, he explores the history of the cigar and the allure of ‘prime stinkers’. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/tobacco-road

🚨 Breaking news. The WINNER of the 2026 Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is Ciarán O’Rourke for his review of The Occult Elvis. Ciarán wins £3000 and publication in the Observer newspaper. The 2026 runners-up are No’a L. bat Miri and Julia Clayton. Congratulations!

In this week’s newsletter, a celebration of the Scottish experimental novelist Muriel Spark. Anthony Burgess met her several times when they both lived in Rome, but what did he think of her novels? Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/sparks-and...

In this week’s newsletter, all of the events happening in May at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester (and a special evening of music inspired by Anthony Burgess’s poetry now booking for June). Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/may-2026-a...

A Clockwork Orange

The Burgess Foundation invites you to the premiere of a song cycle inspired by the poetry of Anthony Burgess. Explore life’s unavoidable happenings with three visiting Canadian musicians. Tickets for the 21st June afternoon concert are £10, available here: www.anthonyburgess.org/event/concer...

In this week’s newsletter, we’re celebrating the life of zoologist Desmond Morris who has died at the age of 98. He developed a friendship with Anthony Burgess in the 1960s, which involved, among other things, cavemen. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/desmond-mo...

Future of Opera – Human–AI Improvisation 🎶🌐 🗓️19/05, 4–7pm 📍International Anthony Burgess Foundation 🎟️ https://ow.ly/JSGA50YC96z A workshop by Tuning Into Opera (ENO) with the OperAI: Future of Opera series exploring how live human–AI improvisation can widen participation in opera.

We are delighted to partner with @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social and @poetryireland.bsky.social to welcome Jane Hirshfield to read from and discuss her collection 'The Asking'. 📅 Mon 27 Apr ⏰ 6.30-8pm 📍 @anthonyburgess.bsky.social 🎟️ £4 (free with book purchase) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-asking...

In this week’s newsletter, Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) reviews the controversial bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which posits that the descendants of Christ exist in the European nobility. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-holy-b...

I am performing a solo show in Manchester next month - spread the word if you can - thank you www.anthonyburgess.org/event/litera...

Let's announce the shortlistees for the 2026 Observer Burgess prize. Over the next hour, we will reveal SEVEN names, in random order. Our first shortlistee is... Ciarán O’Rourke for their review of Miguel Conner’s biography The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King

In this week’s newsletter, we explore Tremor of Intent, Anthony Burgess's espionage novel published in 1966. Why did Burgess take on spy fiction, and what’s it got to do with Ian Fleming and John Le Carré? Let’s look at the evidence… 🔍 anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/spooks-at-...

We are very excited to announce our longlist for the 2026 Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. Congratulations to these excellent writers, whose subject matters included a cover of The Specials’ Ghost Town, an exhibition of autonomous robotic dogs, Brad Pitt racing motor cars, >

In this week’s newsletter, we round up April events happening at the Burgess Foundation, plus a preview of Robin Ince on tour and the performance of a new Anthony Burgess-inspired song cycle brought all the way from Canada. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/april-2026...

Great read by the Anthony Burgess Foundation on One Hand Clapping, which we reissued in February. ‘. . .one of his most successful satirical novels, animated by a witty and energetic first-person voice.’ substack.com/@anthonyburges… @anthonyburgess.bsky.social

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On this week’s newsletter, we’re revisiting a strange comic novel Anthony Burgess was working on in the years immediately before A Clockwork Orange: One Hand Clapping. Find out why it is unlike most of his other work. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-lot-of-l...

A brand new audiobook of ONE HAND CLAPPING by Anthony Burgess is coming on 31 March 2026. Burgess's satire of consumerism and television is brilliantly narrated by Becky Bowe. Listen to a sample below and pre-order wherever you usually get audiobooks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6YZ...

A brand new audiobook of ONE HAND CLAPPING by Anthony Burgess is coming on 31 March 2026. Burgess's satire of consumerism and television is brilliantly narrated by Becky Bowe. Listen to a sample below and pre-order wherever you usually get audiobooks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6YZ...

We come across this every now and then, and it's an amusing letter. The thing is, Burgess kept all of his letters, hate mail too, but all we have in the archive is a more polite letter direct from 'Herr Wenner' himself. Some of the hate mail makes HST's letter look like it was written by a nun...

On this week’s newsletter, we’re celebrating Len Deighton, who died this week. Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) was a fan of his work, and had plenty to say about him. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/len-deight...