“I’m a poser. I’m good“: why Bruce Springsteen is a man born to tell stories
Springsteen’s memoir, Born to Run, is the most accomplished of the recent cavalcade of rock autobiographies.
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How global warming has frozen fiction
Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement poses two, thought-provoking questions about how we write about climate change.
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What melting sea ice means for the future of the Earth
A Farewell to Ice reveals the sad truth: one day Arctic ice, our planet’s air con, will be gone.
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The story of an old name: why readers reject the sexist unmasking of Elena Ferrante
It’s not the first time critics have attempted to use the biographical details of women’s lives to diminish their writing.
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With his new book, John le Carré is finally revealing his secrets
The Pigeon Tunnel turns to the two, ambigious relationships that fuel le Carré’s work: that with his family, and with a…
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Douglas Alexander: How the Lib Dems did coalition wrong
How different the fate of the Lib Dems could have been if they had begun the coalition with more understanding…
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Reading Speaking Out, I found myself agreeing with Ed Balls
Balls is clear that his defeat in his constituency in 2015 was a prelude to a funeral and life outside…
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If you don’t know what a Fwooper is by now, where have you been?
Meet the latest magical characters entering the Harry Potter universe.
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