Deconstructing Jackie
How the French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida became one of the most influential thinkers in the world.
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What is literature for?
We should start owning our reading and asking more serious questions about what place literary education has in our collective…
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“There is no either/or when it comes to identity“: Yaa Gyasi on publishing’s race problem and human recklessness
The author is “obsessed” with the notion of inherited trauma, a theme that appears in her books Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom.
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Sylvia Pankhurst: The great agitator
We should all be grateful to this doughty, irrepressible woman who battled so hard and sacrificed so much to make…
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Simon Akam’s The Changing of the Guard exposes the failures of the British army
This detailed, academic book argues flawed leadership led to military disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Carol Dyhouse’s Love Lives examines how Cinderella stories have shaped women’s expectations
By focusing on fairy tales, Dyhouse gives a sense of narrative cohesion to the fitful, complex, uneven revolution in postwar family…
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NS Recommends: New books from Peter Oborne, Nadia Owusu, Eimear McBride and Jeremy Cooper
The Assault on Truth by Oborne, Aftershocks by Owusu, Mouthpieces by McBride, and Bolt from the Blue by Cooper.
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Sex, scandal and high society in Chips Channon’s uncensored diaries
Channon was a snobbish, sexually voracious Tory who revered Hitler – and a new edition of his journals shines a startling light…
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