The ghosts of Mark Fisher
How the cultural critic, four years after his death, became one of the most influential thinkers and writers of our…
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NS Recommends: New books from Bryan Washington, Jonty Claypole, Raven Leilani and Ijeoma Oluo
Memorial by Washington, Words Fail Us by Claypole, Luster by Leilani, Mediocre by Oluo.
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Max Porter’s The Death of Francis Bacon: a novelist takes on the painter’s final days
The modern artist, Bacon said, must “unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life more violently”,…
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How Augustus rebuilt Rome
Why the age of Augustus still transfixes us.
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Ramachandra Guha’s The Commonwealth of Cricket: a delightful sporting memoir
Guha, one of India’s best-known historians and public intellectuals, is a bona fide cricket obsessive.
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The prose style of John le Carré
The master of the spy novel could be simultaneously old-fashioned and thoroughly modern – but what made his fiction Le…
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The most anticipated fiction of 2021
The literary highlights of the year ahead, from family sagas to historical fiction.
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The lying life of John le Carré
It wasn’t only in his pseudonymous spy fiction that the late novelist practised the art of invention – from childhood, David…
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