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NS Recommends: New books from Hari Kunzru, Susan Owens, Mieko Kawakami and Sean R Roberts
Kunzru’s Red Pill, Owens’ Spirit of Place, Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs (translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd), and Roberts’ The…
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Once upon a time, I could have lived like a king reviewing one book a week
Misery is learning that, in 1930, I could have earned the equivalent of $2,130 for one lousy review.
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The 2020 Booker Prize shortlist is the most diverse and international ever
In a year of reckoning with racial injustice, the shortlist demonstrates the publishing industry’s commitment to do better.
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With her new novel, Ottessa Moshfegh asks: what good are likeable characters anyway?
Death in Her Hands presents yet another abhorrent character – written with wit and intrigue, and sometimes a little too much knowingness.
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Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty: a tense study of an illegal immigrant in Australia
The Booker Prize winner once again shows how powerfully he can probe the outer limits of dignity and agency for angry…
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How Phyllis Rose’s Parallel Lives exposed the fundamental problems with marriage
First published in 1983, the remarkable study of five Victorian writers’ relationships has been reprinted in a new edition by…
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How millennials turned away from religion and embraced new lifestyle cults
From Harry Potter to wellness to astrology, Tara Isabella Burton argues that young people are not abandoning faith but reinventing it…
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