Isabel Waidner wins the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold
Described as “Kafka’s The Trial written for the era of gaslighting”, Waidner’s third novel has won the £10,000 prize for…
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Reimagining Beowulf as a story of female rage
Maria Dahvana Headley’s thrilling feminist translation brings the epic Anglo-Saxon poem into the present political moment.
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Theory wars: how postmodernism became weaponised
How did a philosophical movement embracing consumer culture become a target for today’s anti-woke brigade?
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Life as We Made It by Beth Shapiro asks: is “natural” always best?
We might be scared of biotechnology – but this compelling book argues that it’s nothing new, and could help save…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Charlotte Higgins, Jan Grue, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, and Jonn Elledge
Greek Myths by Higgins, I Live a Life Like Yours by Grue, The Library by Pettegree and der Weduwen and…
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Natasha Brown: “It’s important to celebrate difficult novels”
The author on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted debut, health inequality, and the influence of bell hooks and Jane Austen.
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Claire-Louise Bennett: “The brink of adulthood is a very uncomfortable time”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on style, the problem with “promise”, and why Garibaldi biscuits are the best in the world.
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In My Body, Emily Ratajkowski asks difficult questions about beauty and capitalism. Does she have any answers?
The supermodel sets herself against the patriarchal norms that crush women, but fails to see how she upholds them.
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