How grime became king
From the Crossways estate in Bow to the Royal Albert Hall, grime music has fought its way to the centre of…
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In Sylvia Plath’s final letters, Ted Hughes comes across as a monster
The force of the second volume of Plath’s letter comes as Plath vents her fury towards Hughes repeatedly, letter after…
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Lewis Goodall’s Left for Dead? asks if Labour can win again
It’s a good question, and one that will define the direction of British politics in the coming decade.
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Andrew Miller’s eighth novel is an exploration of culpability, written in singing prose
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free secures Miller’s his track record as a highly distinguished novelist.
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Anthony Burgess’s boundless curiosity
Burgess saw journalism as a way writers could augment their income, publish to a large readership between books, and escape…
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Shaun Prescott’s debut The Town: gripping Australian existentialism
The novel explores microcosmic Australia reduced to a town so drab it has no name.
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How the Gulf’s petrodollars lubricate the British economy
Why it matters that money from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates weighs heavily and invisibly on British…
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Sally Rooney on sex, power and the art of being normal
The 27-year-old Booker-nominated author, hailed as the voice of millennial fiction, discusses the success of her second novel, Normal People.
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