How Francis Bacon shunned the traditions of British art
A new book, Francis Bacon: Revelations, shows the painter as he tried to recapture the intensity of wartime when the…
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NS Recommends: New books from Richard Flanagan, Brian Christian and Vesna Main
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Flanagan, The Alignment Problem by Christian, The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic…
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How Yevgeny Zamyatin shaped dystopian fiction
While Wells, Huxley and Orwell invented flawed worlds, the Soviet writer was living in one.
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Remembering The World of Yesterday
Why a book on the twilight of the Habsburg empire is being read again in a time of pandemic, closed…
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Kamila Shamsie and Nell Stevens to judge 2021 Goldsmiths Prize
Fred D’Aguiar and Johanna Thomas-Corr complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”.
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How the slave trade funded Britain
A new book argues that people-trafficking was once “an essential part of British national life”.
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How nature reclaims the places humans have abandoned
What might happen to the entire planet, when humanity shrinks away?
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The importance of being Everett
The greatest role played by the actor is his portrayal of a profane, outrageous entertainer – himself.
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