What we lose without the dark
Johan Eklöf’s The Darkness Manifesto shows how artificial light is harming the natural world – and what we can do…
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From Anthony Quinn to Andrey Kurkov: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring No Choice: Becca Andrews on the right to abortion, and Servants of the Damned by David Enrich.
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Elif Shafak’s Diary: Solidarity with Iranian women, Instagram anxiety, and a turn at the Booker Prize ceremony
An unexpected link to a schoolgirl killed in Afghanistan is a reminder that we are all citizens of the world.
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Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka: “You don’t know who you’re going to offend”
The Sri Lankan novelist on growing up amid civil war, turning trauma into satire, and winning the 2022 prize.
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How the greatest minds of the Enlightenment united in a small town in Germany
In 1790s Jena a group of thinkers including Friedrich Schiller and Goethe built the intellectual foundations of today’s world.
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The moral corruption of Holocaust fiction
John Boyne’s shameless sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas exemplifies a genre that expunges the genocide of its…
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How George Saunders became literature’s Mr Nice Guy
The author of Lincoln in the Bardo on US politics, his “limited talent”, and the curse of being seen as…
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Kamila Shamsie’s Best of Friends reveals the complexities of female relationships
The author’s portrait of two women growing up in 1980s Karachi exposes the contempt that can often lie beneath love.
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