We Are Made of Diamond Stuff: a pungent, fluent, thrilling novel
In Isabel Waidner’s Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel, Reebok is discussed along with Robert Rauschenberg, commas enable syntactical flow, and genders blur…
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Deborah Levy: “The unconscious does not exist in a separate room”
Deborah Levy on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel The Man Who Saw Everything, freedom of movement and the Beatles.
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Amy Arnold: “Writing something so dangerous genuinely scared me”
Amy Arnold on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Slip of a Fish, science and fiction, and testing the limits of her readers’…
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Vesna Main: “Literature is art, not a commodity”
Vesna Main on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Good Day?, blurring fiction and non-fiction, and why the classic realist novel doesn’t resonate…
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Re-examining the life of David Ben-Gurion
Ben-Gurion was a divisive leader, an uninspiring and humourless speaker, but still a revered and visionary giant to many Israelis…
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Jenny Slate’s charismatic vulnerability
In her new show Stage Fright, Slate mines both her irresistible stage presence and her willingness to be open with…
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Vesna Main’s Good Day? is sharp and quick-witted meta-fiction
This Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted book, told entirely in unattributed dialogue, offers a fast-paced, intimate discussion of sex work, gender bias, blame…
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Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise: effortlessly inventive and absorbing
Mark Haddon’s Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel draws on stories from the ancient world, medieval literature and Shakespeare and makes a wild…
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