Rosemary Goring

Columnist

I started out as an editor with W & R Chambers, godfathers of English dictionaries, but was lured into newspapers with the promise of free novels. I was literary editor at Scotland on Sunday for several years before joining The Herald. E-books have yet to encroach on my desk, but every other kind has so that, 10 years on, it resembles a broch.        

I started out as an editor with W & R Chambers, godfathers of English dictionaries, but was lured into newspapers with the promise of free novels. I was literary editor at Scotland on Sunday for several years before joining The Herald. E-books have yet to encroach on my desk, but every other kind has so that, 10 years on, it resembles a broch.        

Latest articles from Rosemary Goring

Should 'lost' Gabriel García Márquez story ever have been published?

The late Scottish poet and essayist Alastair Reid deserves a mighty slap on the back for introducing many English-speaking readers to the work of Gabriel García Márquez. Writing in 1986 in the New Yorker, on whose staff he remained for around half a century, Reid hymned a generation of Latin and South American poets and novelists, including Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda and Mario Vargas Llosa. However special attention was reserved for Colombian-born García Márquez, whose novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in Spanish nearly two decades before. It, and others like it, ushered in the literary genre that came to be known as magical realism, in which the fantastical and the real seem indistinguishable.

Rosemary Goring: It comes to us all, Andy. It's time to call it a day

For months some of us have been hoping that Andy Murray would admit his best playing years are behind him, and leave with dignity and reputation intact. The same applies to ageing workers, whatever their trade. Obviously there are rare individuals who continue to perform impressively into later life - certain composers, artists and writers immediately come to mind.