The return of the F-word: neo-fascism in 2018
Vainglorious sexual antics, boastfulness and scorn for democracy: has the blackshirt spirit returned in Donald Trump?
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Olivia Laing’s Crudo: the summer of 2017 and the spirit of Kathy Acker
It’s as though the ghost of Acker has taken possession of Laing, or a fugue-state Laing is escaping into the…
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A Weekend in New York: an over-crowded and confusingly transatlantic novel
This book is like a party so loud and crowded you leave without a single memorable conversation.
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The rise, fall and return of Shirley Collins, heroine of English folk music
In the beery, beardy world of folk music, Collins – a young, working class woman – had few people on…
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Unelected power: banking’s biggest dilemma
We don’t believe politicians and we don’t trust experts – so who is fit to run our central banks?
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Flann O’Brien: the demon jester of Dublin
The collected letters of O’Brien shed a new light on the man behind the dazzling satirical novels.
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The Mars Room: Rachel Kushner’s tale of a women’s prison and its inmates
More than confinement, the novel asks questions about judgement and power.
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Marilynne Robinson Q&A: “Obama was full of respect for American law and tradition“
The US novelist on great American heroes.
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