Kevin Barry’s chaotic journey from “stoner entrepreneur” to Ireland’s most unpredictable novelist
Ghosts, raves and the soul of John Lennon: Tom Gatti interviews the winner of the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize.
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How Islamic is Islamic State? Shiraz Maher’s new book investigates
Maher’s Salafi-Jihadism: the History of an Idea draws on research and the author’s personal experience to investigate the ideology which drives jihadism.
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The last crusader
Noel Malcolm on Minoo Dinshaw’s Outlandish Knight, a life of an untypical historian, Steven Runciman.
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Metaphors for madness: the new wave of mental health memoirs
It is no accident that women are writing in ever greater numbers about their mental anguish and pain.
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Are we really living in the age of the second Renaissance?
The sense of an old order degenerating and a new one not yet born recalls the fin de siècle of…
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Speaking in tongues: the greatest European novels, chosen by NS friends and contributors
From Roddy Doyle to Lionel Shriver, friends of the NS share their favourite European novels.
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How Francis Spufford’s New York novel echoes Cervantes
Two new books help us trace the influences of Cervantes on modern fiction.
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Rather than income or savings, should we tax people on what they spend?
Those who have been lucky in life should pay more tax. As such, the proposals Robert H Frank makes in Success…
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