How The Mare throws gender, race and even language into flux
Mary Gaitskill’s new novel presents an agonising world of “nice” and “nasty”, where moral choice is always constrained.
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Happiness is a huge gun: Cold War thrillers and the modern nuclear deterrent
For all that books and films laud Britain’s strength, ultimately, they show that our power is interdependent.
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Inflammatory words: on the history of censored books
On the Burning of Books: How Flames Fail to Destroy the Written Word is an informative book on a hot…
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SRSLY #51: Ghostbusters / Orange is the New Black / The Silent Woman
On the pop culture podcast this week: the new Ghostbusters reboot, series four of Netflix original Orange is the New Black and Janet…
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Snakes on a plain: the gloriously eerie boglands of Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry’s new novel uses stylistic mastery to rework a potent mythological inheritence.
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A portrait of the artist: is it time we looked at Turner differently?
Two new books about the painter show that, when it comes to biography, sometimes less detail can give us more…
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Detecting dogs and Norse gods: The best new children’s books for summer
The best children’s books don’t feel like more school. These picks will help make the summer holidays even better.
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When idealists go to battle: why the Spanish Civil War still matters
The long shadow cast by the Spanish Civil War is more potent because the progressives lost.
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