Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty: a tense study of an illegal immigrant in Australia
The Booker Prize winner once again shows how powerfully he can probe the outer limits of dignity and agency for angry…
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How Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives exposed the fundamental problems with marriage
First published in 1983, the remarkable study of five Victorian writers' relationships has been reprinted in a new edition by…
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How millennials turned away from religion and embraced new lifestyle cults
From Harry Potter to wellness to astrology, Tara Isabella Burton argues that young people are not abandoning faith but reinventing it…
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How China’s strategy of repression has led to decades of violence in Tibet
If there are lessons to be learned from Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick's compelling account of the subjugation of China’s borderlands, they…
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NS Recommends: New books from Brandon Taylor, James Suzman, Diane Cook and Wayne Holloway-Smith
Taylor's Real Life, Suzman's Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time, Cook's The New Wilderness, Holloway-Smith's Love Minus…
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Pointless host Richard Osman: “Loneliness is a form of lockdown”
The quiz master on the future of TV and his debut novel The Thursday Murder Club.
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Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes: strange and poignant
Little Eyes, a series of vignettes about “kentukis” (part Furby, part hacked webcam), sits somewhere between a novel and a series…
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Elena Ferrante’s world of interiors
The formation of female identity in the Neapolitan quartet and The Lying Life of Adults.
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