“Erotic dreams about a man half my age”: Sarah Ladipo Manyika reveals the value of pleasure
Manyika’s Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun makes a valuable case for finding delight in the…
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Eimear McBride: “From a few male critics I heard the sound of petrified gonads retracting in distaste”
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author of The Lesser Bohemians on writing sex (without soft lighting) and exorcising the ghost of James Joyce.
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Nazis on drugs: how the kick of crystal meth powered the Blitzkrieg
From doping at the 1936 Olympic Games to giving soldiers methamphetamine, two new books reveal the drugs that fuelled the…
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Rachel Cusk: “Tristram Shandy looks more radical than anything being written today”
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author discusses the value of risk, the challenge of proportion, and the role of builders in contemporary thought.
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Why on earth has Johnny Depp been cast in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them franchise?
And who will he even play?
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika: “Breaking convention often takes courage and is seldom rewarded”
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author discusses reading for pleasure, the sexuality of older women, and the importance of diversifying literary…
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Paul Beatty: “I invented a Richter scale for racism”
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout on satire, offence and why Donald Trump is “like a dick pic”…
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Seventeen uses of the word “sick”, too many semi-colons: analysing Zayn Malik’s autobiography
The formality and reticence of Zayn: The Official Autobiography – which doesn’t once mention his former One Direction bandmates by name – jars with the singer’s…
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