Keith Ridgway: “There is an instinct in people for solidarity, connection and laughter”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on Muriel Spark, south London and his fifth novel A Shock.
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Inside the Modern House: the UK’s aspirational estate agency
Based on 16 years of running the design-led estate agency, Modern House co-founder Matt Gibberd speaks about his book A…
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Booker Prize-winner Damon Galgut: “South Africa is not a country that speaks with one voice”
The author on racism in the US, the long legacy of apartheid, and why his writing is not influenced by…
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Rebecca Watson: “A person is multitudinous, but also paradoxically, impossibly and perfectly one thing”
The author on Virginia Woolf, forgetting the names of books, and her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Little Scratch.
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Reviewed in short: New books by Simon Heffer, Lucy Burns, Warren Ellis and Helen Oyeyemi
Henry “Chips” Channon, The Diaries by Heffer, Larger than an Orange by Burns, Nina Simone's Gum by Ellis and Peaces…
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Christine Smallwood’s darkly funny novel of a stuck generation
The Life of the Mind smartly observes the lost futures of today’s thirty-somethings.
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How fear makes us human
The late David Graeber’s history of early human societies presents civilisation as a descent from anarchy into servility. But was…
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Isabel Waidner: “The British novel reproduces white middle-class values and aesthetics”
The author on their Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted book Sterling Karat Gold, humour, and why the novel has to change.
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