States of the Body Produced by Love: urgent and lyrical
Nisha Ramayya’s first book is a welcome affirmation of the feminist power to be found in Hinduism.
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Laurie Lee’s rural myths
Full of village legends and adolescent lust, Laurie Lee’s recycled yarns of the landscape of his childhood eventually strangled his…
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Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations: a family history and the record of a lost way of life
Renkl mostly writes about what she saw rather than how she felt, a trait inherited from stoic relatives.
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Thomas Bernhard’s fiction of the meaningless
His work was powered by bile and dread, but the Austrian novelist found laughter in the dark.
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Little women writ large
A new film of the American classic asks whether grown women can retain the spirited independence of their girlhood. It’s…
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Educating Rembrandt
In the city of Leiden, the budding artist was surrounded with industrious craftsmen, freethinking printers and cutting-edge science
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The crimes of Jean Genet
He was a child outlaw who embraced his own “evil” in search of an authentic life. But society turned Genet’s…
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How loneliness became an epidemic
Social isolation is a growing modern phenomenon. But can we treat it as a disease?
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