Misunderstanding Margaret Thatcher
How Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated…
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Benjamin Myers’s The Offing: a sensual pleasure
The prose in The Offing is baroque and proudly old-fashioned, the antithesis of Sally Rooney-style sparseness.
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Prince’s The Beautiful Ones: filmic dreams of a life.
The pop icon’s unfinished autobiography offers glimpses of his childlike imagination.
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Burning Down the Haus: how punk changed Berlin
Tim Mohr’s history of East German punk is full of vivid characters and raging teenagers.
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We Are Made of Diamond Stuff: a pungent, fluent, thrilling novel
In Isabel Waidner’s Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel, Reebok is discussed along with Robert Rauschenberg, commas enable syntactical flow, and genders blur…
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Deborah Levy: “The unconscious does not exist in a separate room”
Deborah Levy on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel The Man Who Saw Everything, freedom of movement and the Beatles.
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Amy Arnold: “Writing something so dangerous genuinely scared me”
Amy Arnold on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Slip of a Fish, science and fiction, and testing the limits of her readers’…
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Vesna Main: “Literature is art, not a commodity”
Vesna Main on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Good Day?, blurring fiction and non-fiction, and why the classic realist novel doesn’t resonate…
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