“Macron should be punished”: Edouard Louis on poverty, violence, and the gilets jaunes
At 26, the French author is a literary sensation for his bruisingly honest accounts of society’s inequalities.
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History’s hangover: Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson’s Rule Britannia
Has lingering imperial nostalgia found new expression through Brexit?
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Marlon James’s Black Leopard Red Wolf: a work of literary magic
To call this novel original doesn’t do justice to such a phantasmagoric work of art.
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The beauty and savagery of Ernst Jünger’s wartime diaries
The publication of these extraordinary, sometimes hallucinatory diaries reveals one of the great witnesses to 20th-century Europe’s catastrophe.
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When the human tide ebbs
Global population boom may now be turning to population bust. The consequences, for better or worse, will shape our future.
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I used to be so convinced I was straight. I still don’t know if I can call myself queer
What does being queer really mean? I’ve asked people who have studied queer theory, who know all the right definitions.…
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How Chinese novelists are reimagining science fiction
The dystopias of Chinese science fiction are resonating in a world facing existential threats.
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Why JB Priestley matters
He is now best known for that dramatic pot-boiler, An Inspector Calls. But Priestley’s gripping novels show an instinctive understand…
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