Is it time to end our Mitford obsession?
As Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love appears on BBC One, two writers consider the legacy of the original novel…
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Rachel Cusk and the art of the midlife crisis
How the 54-year-old novelist has made a career out of destruction and reinvention.
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The fall of the intellectual
Where have all the great thinkers gone?
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This book has been cancelled
Blake Bailey’s new book on Philip Roth has been withdrawn by its US publisher after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Stephen Walker, Annie Ernaux, Justine Cowan and Gabriela Garcia
Beyond by Walker, Simple Passion by Ernaux, translated by Tanya Leslie, The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames by Cowan and Of Women and…
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Chris Power’s A Lonely Man is a gripping novel that balances political intrigue with personal danger
The book is also a melancholy portrayal of male solitude and community.
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Olivia Laing’s Everybody is a sprawling meditation on freedom and the body
By blending memoir, art criticism and biography, Laing explores how the body you are born into shapes your life, your…
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The contradictions of Edward Said
Why the intellectually restless author of Orientalism was an icon to the left, and an irritant to everyone else.
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