How identity politics props up racism
There are many ways to be black, as new books by Kenan Malik and Colin Grant show –and a fixation…
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Bret Easton Ellis: “Wokeness is running out of room”
The Shards is the famously morbid author’s latest “trickster book”. He prefers cabinet shopping to culture wars now.
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In search of a language of loss
Is there a correct way to mourn? When my mother died, I scoured the literature of grief for answers
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Kick the Latch is a spare and powerful account of a life with horses
Kathryn Scanlan’s novel, based on interviews with an American horse trainer, is a precise and unromantic portrait of the racetrack…
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Prince Harry’s Spare breaks UK non-fiction book sales records
The memoir appears to have beaten growing “Harry fatigue”.
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How Nan Shepherd shaped modern nature writing
Snubbed by its first readers, her visionary book The Living Mountain went on to inspire a new literature of landscape.
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What Norman Mailer can teach us
It is right to condemn the writer’s violent chauvinism – but a literature that has lost the power to challenge is…
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From Edward Stourton to the Wife of Bath: new titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Bad Bridget by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick and Sold Out by James Rickards.
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