Sarah Perry on illness, horror and the power of the female villain
In 2016, just as The Essex Serpent was being published, novelist Sarah Perry was diagnosed with Graves’ disease. Now, she’s publishing her…
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How Roald Dahl’s Matilda became an LGBT+ classic
Matilda is a reminder that the family we choose can be more valuable than the one we were born into –and that…
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Made famous by Roald Dahl, but hugely successful in his own right: the art of Quentin Blake
The illustrator never went to art college, but has a career spanning four decades and an instantly recognisable style that’s…
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Turning over a new leaf: the New Statesman’s autumn books special
From an epic life of Nietzsche to Lily Allen’s brutally honest memoir, the big new releases reviewed.
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Rachel Cusk makes Goldsmiths Prize shortlist for the third time
The prize for “fiction at its most novel” has nominated Cusk for the third time in four years, for the final…
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Olga Tokarczuk’s grimly comic tale of death and vengeance
Translated with virtuosic precision by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Tokarczuk’s fiction seethes with the cleansing power of rage
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Palaces for the people: how shared spaces improve lives
The centuries-old idea of sharing space is today a furious call to action.
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Sarah Moss’s sixth novel Ghost Wall is a thriller with a nuanced understanding of history
Moss’s sensual writing recalls the late Helen Dunmore.
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