How Vanessa Springora’s Consent tries to transcend the #MeToo moment it created
A French memoir of sexual abuse created a political storm – but is it, as its author suggests, “first and foremost…
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Locking down with Kafka
How the great writer, in his airless, claustrophobic fictions, provides a guide to living in the pandemic age.
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NS Recommends: New books from Eliot Higgins, Matthew Kneale, Jane Smiley and Sam Mills
We are Bellingcat by Higgins, The Rome Plague Diaries by Kneale, The Strays of Paris by Smiley and Chauvo-Feminism by Mills.
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How Keats lives on
His radical depictions of desire and oblivion changed the course of English poetry – and, 200 years after his death,…
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How Joan Didion broke free
Joan Didion has died aged 87. In this essay, Leo Robson explored how the chronicler of American counterculture was tormented…
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NS Recommends: New books from Fiona Sampson, Samira Shackle, Stella Duffy and Steven Hall
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Sampson, Karachi Vice by Shackle, Lullaby Beach by Duffy and Maxwell’s Demon by Hall. …
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NS Recommends: New books from Juliet Nicolson, Shalom Auslander, Simon Kuper and Caleb Azumah Nelson
Frostquake by Nicolson, Mother for Dinner by Auslander, The Happy Traitor by Kuper and Open Water by Azumah Nelson.
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How Robert Maxwell bullied his way into the establishment
A new biography ventures inside the monstrous ego of the robber baron of Fleet Street.
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