Edward St Aubyn’s Double Blind is a clumsy critique of modern science
The novel veers between jet-setting farce and musings on recent issues of Current Biology.
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How Ishiguro rewrote himself
The Nobel winner’s cryptic new novel is the result of a decades-long rejection of “well-formed” fiction.
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George Saunders and the art of keeping the reader reading
In his fascinating new book on Russian short stories, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, Saunders considers how…
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The limits of “consent culture”
Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again argues popular feminism’s focus on consent is dangerously inadequate.
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The Brexiteer’s guide to history
In his new account of why Britain left the EU, Robert Tombs abandons objectivity for polemic.
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“Can you imagine if you presented Freud to Jane Austen?”: Josh Cohen on literature and psychoanalysis
The analyst and writer’s latest work, How to Live. What to Do., is a mix of case studies from his consulting room, personal…
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Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This is the first great internet novel
The oddball American writer’s debut novel is a witty and true depiction of the experience of living online.
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How Vanessa Springora’s Consent tries to transcend the #MeToo moment it created
A French memoir of sexual abuse created a political storm – but is it, as its author suggests, “first and foremost…
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