The new books exploring masculinity and family life
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son and The Seven Good Years may two more books by…
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How do we know what we believe is true?
Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee invites us to reconsider the very nature of truth – but its answers are sometimes vague.
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Joanna Walsh’s Vertigo is artful and intelligent – but not wholly successful
Walsh’s short stories are elegant, but the closed-off life they portray is an impoverished one for anybody.
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I know what you’re thinking – but this graphic novel of Proust is a triumph
Stéphane Heuet’s illustrated adaptation of Swann’s Way is a triumph.
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Margaret Forster: A northern lass in NW5
Antisocial and curious, rude and generous, a literary EastEnders fan – my friend was full of contradictions.
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It’s not only a story: why it matters how J K Rowling depicts Native American history
When an update is made to the Harry Potter universe, it makes news around the world – whether for good…
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Why David Astor was one of the twentieth century’s greatest – and bravest – editors
Jeremy Lewis’s biography reveals the life of the man who made the Observer unique.
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The strange work of French pulp writer Serge Brussolo is finally available in English
The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome is the first of Brussolo’s novels to be translated – and, happily, it’s also one of the…
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