The urgency of Jesmyn Ward
Ward’s books deepen our understanding of an iniquitous America
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The best music writing is done by people who don’t always write about music
Jake Shears’s memoir, Boys Keep Swinging, is a current example, packed with sharply told stories and proper moments of insider insight.
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The real thing: how Tom Wolfe awakened our reality hunger
Wolfe the novelist fought his corner against the “two old piles of bones” – Mailer and Updike – but it was his non-fiction…
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Gangster jazz: Nathaniel Rich’s King Zeno is a hugely readable high-class period thriller
The novel would make a great Netflix series, a murky pre-Prohibition thriller poised between LA Confidential and True Detective.
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Turns out, Charles Dickens invented the concept of “gammon” in 1838
Am I dreaming, though?
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War hero, novelist, moralist and liar: the many lives and disguises of Romain Gary
For 15 years he was a French diplomat, for ten a jet-setting celebrity spouse – writing a significant French oeuvre…
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An accidental prime minister: the underrated career of the pragmatic Lord Liverpool
In the age of Putin and Assad, British politics could learn a lesson from Liverpool.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel threatens to douse the genre’s spirit
Comics were, until recently, deemed a marginal medium, at least in the sense that they were critically neglected. That’s what…
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