Kevin Davey: “TS Eliot was far more than the sum of his prejudices”
The debut novelist on how he tackled the marital chaos and unsavoury opinions of a modernist poet in his Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted…
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Will Self: The nostalgia of the “heritage novel” leaves me reaching for my gun
Will Self on his Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Phone, his love of ellipses – and the Downton Abbey effect on literature.
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Can you read the alethiometer? A His Dark Materials quiz
REAL HEADS KNOW.
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The Back Half: Ali Smith on the novel in the age of Trump
The new NS culture podcast brings you the novelist’s recent lecture on the state of the novel.
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Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair feels like looking through a keyhole
There’s a shift from the first person to the third, but the pastiche quality never lifts.
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The Last London is a journey through hipster hell
Author Iain Sinclair finds a “rank of pristine swan pedalos” staring at a Westfield shopping centre.
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Out of the Wreckage: George Monbiot searches for the common good
The environment writer believes we need to build an “inclusive economy”.
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Feminist, lesbian, warrior, poet: rediscovering the work of Audre Lorde
The American activist showed a generation how to fuse the personal and political.
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