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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.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of literature with our collection of articles, offering literary analysis, book recommendations, author spotlights, and thought-provoking discussions that celebrate the written word.
Everyone can, and should, be a critic. But the reviews website is having a sinister effect on books.
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ByHow Elizabeth Gilbert gave up on literature.
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ByThe Nobel laureate on abortion, the “shame” of her upbringing and forging a new working-class literature.
ByNot everyone is convinced of Martin Amis’s genius.
ByThe novelist had no reason to welcome me into his home – but generosity was the thread that connected his…
ByHow the late novelist’s time at the magazine in the 1970s helped develop his style and voice.
ByIn inventing a figure who rubbed shoulders with David Bowie and Susan Sontag, the American novelist thrillingly subverts the conventions…
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ByIn featuring just four men, Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists confirms what we already knew: the literary male has…
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ByIn his final novel Tomás Nevinson, the late Spanish author concluded a profound literary project built on personal and political…
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