“Lord of the Rings is racist about orcs” is not an important new front in the Culture War
The battle of the Times editorial pages.
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How Winston Churchill used his storytelling skills to shape his country’s history
Fake news, disinformation, propaganda – call it what you will – the dissemination of untruths and half-truths is part of the…
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The strange beauty of gulls
We vilify gulls for their proximity to human waste – but for self-declared “larophiles”, gulls are the ne plus ultra of…
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The hawking of Stephen: is Brief Answers to the Big Questions more spin than science?
A little more time spent on the editing, and a little less spent in marketing meetings, would have created a…
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Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver: an exploration of the rift between baby boomers and millennials
Kingsolver manages to make her characters simultaneously believable individuals, and embodiments of a generation.
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The online right wants politics out of comics, but they have always been bastions of liberal thinking
Even as a child, I got the message that you shouldn’t stigmatise anyone for being different, even if that person…
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Why we chose Robin Robertson’s The Long Take as the winner of the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize
Robin Robertson has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, in association with the New Statesman, for his verse novel The Long…
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Rachel Cusk: “I think of Brexit as a psychodrama”
Rachel Cusk on political writing, the problems of female experience, and her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Kudos.
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