Trillions: How index funds took over the world
A once controversial academic idea has transformed financial markets. This has been great for savers – but is it good…
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Why Isabel Waidner won the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize
In Sterling Karat Gold the author writes with incandescent rage and surreal humour.
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Isabel Waidner wins the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold
Described as “Kafka’s The Trial written for the era of gaslighting”, Waidner's third novel has won the £10,000 prize for…
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Reimagining Beowulf as a story of female rage
Maria Dahvana Headley’s thrilling feminist translation brings the epic Anglo-Saxon poem into the present political moment.
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Theory wars: how postmodernism became weaponised
How did a philosophical movement embracing consumer culture become a target for today’s anti-woke brigade?
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Life as We Made It by Beth Shapiro asks: is “natural” always best?
We might be scared of biotechnology – but this compelling book argues that it’s nothing new, and could help save…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Charlotte Higgins, Jan Grue, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, and Jonn Elledge
Greek Myths by Higgins, I Live a Life Like Yours by Grue, The Library by Pettegree and der Weduwen and…
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Natasha Brown: “It’s important to celebrate difficult novels”
The author on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted debut, health inequality, and the influence of bell hooks and Jane Austen.
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