Tom Wolfe’s acid aesthetic
In his groundbreaking book, the star of New Journalism “put the reader into the eye sockets” of an LSD-fuelled 1960s…
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How Elon Musk killed Twitter
His vainglorious $44bn takeover backfired on investors, employees, users – and the world’s richest man himself.
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What Hillary Clinton knows
Despite moments of frustrating caution, her memoir Something Lost, Something Gained is revealing about Bill and exhilarating on her feminist…
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Inside Diane Abbott’s war with Labour
The MP’s memoir A Woman Like Me reveals a remarkable life spent fighting prejudice – and her own party.
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From Rachel Kushner to Mark Rowlands: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Stone Circles by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings and The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by…
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Lynn Barber’s conversation pieces
The celebrity interviewer on men speaking over her, her most interesting subject, and entering her ninth decade.
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JG Ballard’s apocalyptic art
In Empire of the Sun, published 40 years ago, the great novelist turned his childhood experiences in a Japanese prisoner-of-war…
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WH Auden’s visions of England
The poet as a young man became the “mouthpiece of an epoch” by connecting his private world with the public…
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