Edna O’Brien: “Some men like fairly trivial women”
The 88-year-old writer on truth-telling, the Irish backstop and the elusive “love object” that has haunted her life.
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The Reinvention of Humanity: how women created anthropology
A new book explains that women pioneered the study of other cultures.
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Julian Barnes’s The Man in the Red Coat: gently rambling, lightly polemical non-fiction
This more-ish book is best, if inadequately, described as a biography of Samuel-Jean Pozzi, the French gynaecologist. Pozzi is well…
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Matt Stoller’s Goliath: the rise of big tech
A new book explores how big tech threatens democracy.
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Attlee and Churchill: leaders united through war
Winston Churchill said Clement Attlee was a modest man who had much to be modest about. But they worked together…
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Max Porter’s Lanny is a story of our fraught relationship to the countryside
A missing child (the eponymous Lanny); a traumatised village; and a strange, chorus-like narration. Max Porter’s Lanny has rather a…
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Lydia Davis’s Essays: a masterful, lucid collection
“Revising One Sentence” is the title of one of the essays in Lydia Davis’s masterful, lucid collection. No single piece…
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Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women: a bold and timely portrait of female sexual desire
Lisa Taddeo’s debut Three Women is an eight-year study of a subject that was thought not to exist in any…
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