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The memeification of George Orwell

The writer has become a national treasure, moral arbiter and begetter of biographies: do we need a new one?

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Also featuring Why is this Lying Bastard Lying to Me? by Rob Burley and The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan.

By Jeremy Cliffe, Michael Prodger, India Bourke and Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Joanna Biggs’ A Life of One’s Own looks to the letters and journals of literary women for guidance. Can they…

By Anna Leszkiewicz

This year’s Wisden chronicles and fights back against the destruction of the summer game.

By Matthew Engel

Also featuring a biography of Messalina and a story collection by Shalash the Iraqi.

By Megan Gibson, Rachel Cunliffe, Ellen Peirson-Hagger and Michael Prodger

Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked…

By Thomas Nagel

Men at War, Luke Turner’s tender account of servicemen’s transgressive private lives, transforms our understanding of the Second World War.

By Erica Wagner

In inventing a figure who rubbed shoulders with David Bowie and Susan Sontag, the American novelist thrillingly subverts the conventions…

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger