The long roots of Russian anti-Semitism
The most famous pogrom of all took place at Kishinev in 1903. Its consequences were felt for years.
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Towering ambitions: the problematic history of social housing
How council estates went from being seen as the solution to poor housing to a dank and crime-ridden example of…
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Why Meg Wolitzer is a writer for the #MeToo era
Wolitzer has been offering piercing work on women’s lives for decades. Now, the world is finally catching up.
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Shakespeare in the age of Trump
To understand today’s demagogues and despots we should look to Macbeth and Richard III.
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Sex, death and ironic punctuation in the poetry of Hera Lindsay Bird
“Everything in my life I have to turn into a joke”
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The two faces of Philip Roth
Throughout several encounters with the late great novelist, I saw him switch between scabrous provocateur and professorial literary grandee.
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Exile or refugee? Lights in the Distance overturns the spurious distinction
Daniel Trilling’s powerful new book shows the reality of life for people trying to enter a Europe that largely doesn’t…
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Patrick Langley’s debut novel Arkady crackles with energy
Arkady explores an England wrecked not by obvious dystopian tropes, but by rent hikes, gentrification and the “decanting” of tower…
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