The varied and decorated career of author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The 17 stories in At The End of the Century, drawn from past collections, chronicle Jhabvala’s concern with cultural encounters, dislocation…
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Christ the Corbynista: what a New Testament translation can teach us about Jesus’ communist roots
David Bentley Hart points up the many deficiencies of the New International Version and the English Standard Version, which are both…
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Julian Barnes’s latest novel, The Only Story, is a tale of absolute devastation
Barnes leads the unsuspecting reader into a dark tangle of addiction, violence, abuse, mental disarray and non sequitur.
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From royal trumpeter to chief diver, Miranda Kaufmann uncovers the Africans of Tudor Britain
As Kaufmann writes “it is vital to understand that the British Isles have always been peopled by immigrants”.
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Australia’s colonial history haunts Peter Carey’s new novel A Long Way from Home
“I’m an Australian writer and I haven’t written about this? Well, that just seems pathetic to me.”
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A matter of life and death: why people are prepared to die (and kill) in the boxing ring
These three books explore why, amid the chaos, trauma and tragedy, boxing is for many “the only honest place”.
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Elif Shafak and Deborah Levy to judge the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize
Nicholas Lezard and Adam Mars-Jones complete the judging panel for the £10,000 prize for “fiction at its most novel”.
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Why I hate Giles Coren
Honestly, Coren and Austen would have got along famously, because Austen was also a messy bitch who lived for drama.
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