What Sunset Song taught me about myself and my country
Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel of love, war and rural life laid out the tensions between the old and the…
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Will Eaves and Frances Wilson to judge the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize
Chris Power and Sarah Ladipo Manyika complete the panel for the £10,000 prize awarded to fiction that “breaks the mould”.
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American pop icons and the dark side of fame
From Elvis to Prince, the music stars who burnt out in the limelight.
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JM Coetzee’s The Death of Jesus: a fitting conclusion to a great trilogy
Coetzee’s trilogy of deadpan, present tense, fable-like fantasies, culminates in his extraordinary new novel The Death of Jesus.
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Deborah Orr’s Motherwell: a memoir of family insights and dark asides
Motherwell is a beautifully written – if frustrating – portrait of a quintessential Seventies working-class childhood.
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How HG Wells invented the modern world
Wells was a prolific and visionary writer – but his major legacy is political.
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The radicalism of Randolph Bourne
Bourne’s affinity with outsiders drove his vision of making North America a united states of communities. A century on, his…
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Kim Stanley Robinson: “What the hell do we write now?”
The science fiction writer is consulted by politicians and courted by Google and Facebook for his visions of a better…
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