Michel Houellebecq and the soul of France
Sex, death, politics and terrorism – and the return of the great writer.
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Ben Okri: climate change and oppression are born of the same “devouring instincts”
The award-winning writer on philosophy, mythology and the connections between racial injustice and ecological crisis.
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Reviewed in short: New titles from Nathan Law, Johann Hari, Bart Van Loo and Saša Stanišic
Freedom by Law, Stolen Focus by Hari, The Burgundians by Van Loo and Where You Come From by Stanišic.
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Why Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise is an unconvincing redesigning of America
The new novel from the bestselling author of A Little Life is less than the sum of its parts.
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Eimear McBride and the anatomy of misogyny
In her vivid polemic McBride explores disgust and the female body.
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How Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan shaped modern politics
David Runciman’s history reveals what the great philosopher can teach us about emancipation, coercion and the doubleness of political life.
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How we lost the art of getting well
Gavin Francis examines how modern medicine tackles the crisis of illness, but neglects the essential process of physical and mental…
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Colm Tóibín: “I think, ‘I must be deep.’ Then I think, ‘Stop this nonsense, get on with the story’”
The Irish novelist on writing after chemotherapy, growing up gay “in the 19th century”, and winning the 2021 David Cohen…
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