Hermione Lee on how to write a life
Lee is known for her landmark biographies of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. Now, she has taken…
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The radical legacy of Shulamith Firestone
Why Firestone’s groundbreaking manifesto The Dialectic of Sex, first published in 1970, still feels radical today.
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Veteran science fiction writer makes the 2020 Goldsmiths shortlist
M John Harrison is one of two septuagenarian authors nominated for the prize for “literature at its most novel”.
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How do we tell the story of Sylvia Plath?
Variously depicted as a victim or a villain, perhaps no other writer has an afterlife more contested than Plath.
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The longform patriarchs, and their accomplices
Beyond the white male canon: Bernardine Evaristo’s New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture offers a manifesto for the creation of a new, inclusive…
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Sasha Swire’s diaries reveal the crass elitism of the Cameron government
Full of enraging ancedotes of the rich and powerful, Diary of an MP’s Wife shows how the Cameroons treated public office like…
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Sport and the English identity
From fox hunters to football hooligans, sport is England’s way of showing what it thinks it is.
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NS Recommends: new books from Matthew Sperling, Arundhati Roy, Vigdis Hjorth and Gordon Bathgate
Sperling’s Viral, Roy’s AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction, Hjorth’s Long Live the Post Horn!, and Bathgate’s Radio Broadcasting: A History of…
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