How China’s strategy of repression has led to decades of violence in Tibet
If there are lessons to be learned from Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick’s compelling account of the subjugation of China’s borderlands, they…
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NS Recommends: New books from Brandon Taylor, James Suzman, Diane Cook and Wayne Holloway-Smith
Taylor’s Real Life, Suzman’s Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time, Cook’s The New Wilderness, Holloway-Smith’s Love Minus…
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Pointless host Richard Osman: “Loneliness is a form of lockdown”
The quiz master on the future of TV and his debut novel The Thursday Murder Club.
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Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes: strange and poignant
Little Eyes, a series of vignettes about “kentukis” (part Furby, part hacked webcam), sits somewhere between a novel and a series…
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Elena Ferrante’s world of interiors
The formation of female identity in the Neapolitan quartet and The Lying Life of Adults.
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Death in the countryside
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the youngest winner of the International Booker Prize, discusses grief and memory.
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The coming avalanche: why the pandemic has shaken the book world
This year, 210 titles were held back until September, causing chaos for publicity teams and bookshops, and leaving authors disappointed.
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David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue: a band Bildungsroman in the Swinging Sixties
The novel begins in 1967, in the clubs of London’s psychedelic music scene, as the band find their groove amid…
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