Joyce Carol Oates, online and off
The novelist reflects on Twitter, autofiction and our lack of a “sense of history”.
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Lorrie Moore’s American afterlife
Moore’s new novel is an absurd, profound treatise on death and grief that only stumbles when it reaches for a…
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Milan Kundera’s identity crisis
In renouncing his homeland and despairing of European culture, the Czech novelist walks in the footsteps of Kafka.
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Goodreads is degrading our literary culture
Everyone can, and should, be a critic. But the reviews website is having a sinister effect on books.
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Why literary snobs don’t get Bridget Jones
Moralising critics forget the importance of fiction holding up a mirror to society’s flaws.
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The monsters of feminist art
How the audacious artists of the Seventies embraced disgust and redefined female beauty.
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From Megan Nolan to James Ball: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Reflections by Mark Avery and The Black Eden by Richard T Kelly.
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A world built on sand
Ed Conway’s Material World shows that despite our digital lives it is rocks and minerals that power the global economy.
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