Why Middlemarch still matters
Published 150 years ago, George Eliot’s epic humanist novel is the antidote to our witless online world.
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Jane Goodall’s lucid optimism
The renowned naturalist believes that we can only save the planet with hope.
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John le Carré’s aimless final novel
Silverview is a disappointing coda to his Cold War masterpieces.
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When God was an alpha male
How the Hebrew deity evolved from predatory strongman to a friend to human frailty.
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The Sally Rooney Hebrew row – explained
The bestselling author is not boycotting Hebrew. But why did so many people assume she was?
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Roald Dahl’s anti-Semitism was grotesque. I should know – I saw it first hand
When I interviewed him in 1983, Dahl was polite and not unfriendly. But he was a bigot.
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“Society is ableist”: Alice Hattrick on gender, chronic illness and long Covid
The author talks about their new book Ill Feelings, and why women are too frequently dismissed by doctors.
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Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist: The six most cutting-edge novelists writing today
The £10,000 award, run in association with the New Statesman, celebrates fiction that “breaks the mould and extends the possibilities…
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