Will Eaves: “Smart tech is a mechanism of control”
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author discusses literary pleasure, artificial intelligence and back pain.
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From Maggie Nelson to Tara Westover: the rich new vein of life writing
There’s a special frisson in reading a book that claims to be telling the truth and nothing but. A new…
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Olivia Laing: “I stopped being able to distinguish news from rumour, paranoia and supposition”
Olivia Laing discusses her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Crudo, the unstable political moment, and the book that best describes how fascism…
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War – huh – what is it good for? Well, actually, now you ask…
In his new book Should I Stay or Should I Go, James Ball answers the tricky questions posed by some…
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How Rudyard Kipling became a master of imperial gothic
Kipling is associated with sentimental children’s fiction or tub-thumping racism, but his best fiction captures the horrors of empire, acted out…
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The strange Victorian murder of Lord William Russell
The crime was set up to look like a burglary gone wrong, but the police realised that the murderer had…
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Comrades in art
As young Communists in 1950s Britain, Soviet children’s literature transformed our world view.
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Will Eaves’s experimental novel Murmur attempts to delve inside the mind of Alan Turing
The novel’s narrator, Alec Pryor, has lived a life that closely reflects that of Alan Turing.
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