Claire-Louise Bennett: “The brink of adulthood is a very uncomfortable time”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on style, the problem with “promise”, and why Garibaldi biscuits are the best in the world.
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In My Body, Emily Ratajkowski asks difficult questions about beauty and capitalism. Does she have any answers?
The supermodel sets herself against the patriarchal norms that crush women, but fails to see how she upholds them.
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Leone Ross: “Age is not a withering – it’s a revolution”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on magic realism, language, and why This One Sky Day took 15 years to write.
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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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