Goldsmiths Prize 2016: women writers dominate the shortlist
The former winner Eimear McBride, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy are all in the running for the £10,000 prize.
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Why can you change gender but not race?
Marina Benjamin on the curious logic of modern identity politics.
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Hands across the pages: the stories of the world’s most beautiful books
Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel allows us to see inside the books most of us will never…
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SRSLY #59: Motherland / The One Hundred Nights of Hero / Ladylike
On the pop culture podcast this week: BBC sitcom pilot Motherland, Isabel Greenberg’s new graphic novel and Buzzfeed’s video series “Ladylike”.
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Clement Attlee: Labour’s own Captain Mainwaring
John Bew’s new book is a curiously coy biography of a man brought down by his lack of imagination.
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Has Tom Wolfe discovered the real origin of human language?
The Kingdom of Speech takes on Noam Chomsky and Charles Darwin in its theories about the evolution of language.
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Why Bright, Precious Days is the novel you’ll both relish and despise
The final novel of Jay McInerney’s trilogy defies none of the criticisms levelled at his writing – but its infectious…
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Margaret Atwood: “A character who is part cat and part owl is accessible to everybody”
The Canadian author discusses feminism, nude selfies and her new graphic novel, Angel Catbird.
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