Brett Anderson’s childhood memoir, Coal Black Morning, details years of struggle before Suede’s fame
The book terminates at the 200-page mark, just as the band receive their first hysterical reviews.
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Jessie Greengrass’s Sight is a wondrous tale packed with Freud and psychoanalysis
Sight would have been a stunning realist novel in its own right, without all the additional historical material.
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Brought up by books: Lucy Mangan examines the lifelong impact of childhood reading
“I was always utterly elsewhere,” writes Mangnan, as she navigates Harry Potter, Goodnight Mister Tom and The Hungry Caterpillar.
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Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment refashioned the idea of what a novel could be
By the 1860s Dostoevsky had been orphaned, imprisoned, conscripted and widowed. Lumbered with debts and immersed in the nihilism of…
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Zadie Smith’s essays reveal how success is not all it’s cracked up to be
Feel Free: Essays shows the limitations of a star literary career – and the freedom of a remarkable critical mind.
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Two books about the Scottish-English border remind us of our impermanence
Graham Robb’s The Debatable Land and Rory Stewart’s The Marches dig into the history and culture of the borderlands.
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Holocaust memoir Maybe Esther is a mesmerising work of reconstruction and reflection
Katja Petrowskaja turns a venerable literature of commemorative, respectful wartime suffering on its head.
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When They Call You a Terrorist: the extraordinary memoir by a Black Lives Matter founder
Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ harrowing and yet uplifting work demonstrates that collective organising is the only thing that has truly changed the world…
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