AM Homes’s new collection of short stories, Days of Awe, is original and destabilising
With the full complement of Homesian injuries, accidents and illnesses, these stories are at once melancholy and absurd.
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Electronic shock treatment: how dance music was born
30 years on from 1988’s Second Summer of Love, a flurry of eye-witness accounts of the rise of electronic dance…
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How we created Philip Green, the “unacceptable face of capitalism”
It is convenient to attribute corporate failures to overweening ogres. But the ultimate flaw lies with the system.
ByBanthology: Stories from Unwanted Nations merely strengthens Western stereotypes about the Middle East
The book contains a story from each of the seven nations under Trump’s “Muslim ban”, but lacks distinctive voices.
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John Edgar Wideman: the voice of America’s great divide
From the Civil War to the prison industrial complex, Wideman’s work considers the bitter legacy of slavery.
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Why is publishing suddenly obsessed with “rebel” women?
A trend of celebrating “nasty”, “badass”, “rebel” women has swept feminist literature. But idolising defiance raises difficult questions about an…
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Jesse Ball’s new novel Census explores loving someone with Down’s syndrome
“I felt, and feel, that people with Down’s syndrome are not really understood.”
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Gypsy Britain: the community behind the media panic
In all the hysteria, the voices of Gypsies themselves are hard to find.
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