Sara Baume: “I’m attracted to artists who find new ways to tread the same ground”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Seven Steeples on the pandemic, the death of her father and the role of…
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Chelsea Manning and the price of knowledge
The whistleblower’s harrowing memoir of her clash with the US military shows that information does not necessarily effect change.
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Jonathan Coe’s Bournville: Britannia chained
The novelist’s piercing satire charts 75 years of British history, ending with a righteously angry attack on the inhumanity of…
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The dark side of DNA editing
Genetic engineering can lead to great medical advances but, as Matthew Cobb’s new book shows, it also brings alarming ethical…
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Decoding Adam Smith
A new history of The Wealth of Nations shows how the Scottish thinker’s legacy became an economic battleground.
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Maddie Mortimer: “My book is just furious it’s not a ballet”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies on typesetting, A Clockwork Orange, and why the…
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From Malorie Blackman to Barbara Kingsolver: recent titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Julia Voss’s biography of Hilma af Klint and Living Together by Mim Skinner.
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Surrender: praying in the church of Bono
In his account of being “saved” by love and religion, the U2 frontman’s sincerity overpowers the scorn of his critics.
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