Why Rachel Cusk won the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
Her novel Parade, slim but complex, is the latest product of a career dedicated to breaking new formal ground.
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Rachel Cusk wins the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize for “ferociously illuminating” novel Parade
The award for inventive fiction goes to a book replete with ideas about art, literature and freedom.
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The atrocity exhibition
Over a single night in 2015, terrorists killed 130 people in Paris. In Emmanuel Carrère’s account of the ensuing trial,…
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Hanif Kureishi’s interrupted life
In 2022 an accident left the novelist paralysed. His blackly comic memoir, Shattered, is a devastating portrait of an imprisoned…
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Rachel Cusk: “Women are writing more boldly about female experience”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on visual art, writing womanhood, and the value of difficulty in literature.
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The making of a media mogul
For centuries, the news industry has been shaped by wealthy, powerful men. Have they also helped to destroy it?
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Han Smith: “Fiction that takes risks shows how electric our minds can be”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the power of portraits, living language, and Russia’s silenced history.
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Colin Ward’s school without walls
The New Statesman columnist and anarchist was a proponent of radical social change that put the most vulnerable first.
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