Bob Dylan’s problem with women
In The Philosophy of Modern Song, 62 of the 66 featured songs are performed by men. Is the 81-year-old songwriter…
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A new age of climate migration
In Nomad Century, Gaia Vince argues we must prepare now for environmental migration on an unprecedented scale.
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Yara Rodrigues Fowler: “I wanted to disorient the Anglophone reader”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel “there are more things” on revolutionary politics, Margery Kempe and cannibalising colonisers.
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Sylvia Plath’s 90th birthday party
In October, around 300 readers arrived in Hebden Bridge for the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival hoping to change perceptions of…
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Why the novel matters
Against the “imperialism of the absolute” – a personal manifesto on the art of fiction.
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How the Treasury quietly runs Britain
A new history of the department shows that, as Liz Truss discovered to her cost, its “abacus economics” has never…
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The women who made TS Eliot
Accounts of the poet’s brutal rejections of Mary Trevelyan and Emily Hale shed light on a man obsessed by posterity…
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From Louise Glück to Rachel Aviv: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring Susan L Shirk on China under Xi Jinping and Ryan Gingeras on the Ottoman Empire.
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