Little earthquakes: In The Outrun, you want to go wherever Amy Liptrot takes you
Redemption-through-nature is now a literary subgenre, and The Outrun will no doubt sit alongside Richard Mabey’s Nature Cure and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk.
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Marie Kondo is more than a tidying guru – she has perfected a radical theory of possessions
Kondo’s mindful consumerism condemns meaningless piles of clutter, but also celebrates the joy material things can bring.
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Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth: How Europe’s exiled intellectuals ended up on a Belgian beach
In choosing to take up this story in the summer of 1936, Weidermann finds a moment of relative calm and…
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Under the hammer and sickle: David Aaronovitch’s Party Animals
How much of David Aaronovitch’s choleric anger at the left, his determination to establish the essentially self-deceiving nature of British…
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Blake Morrison and Bernardine Evaristo to judge the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize
The 2016 Goldsmiths Prize for “fiction at its most novel” announces its judging panel.
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Anxious in America: On writing the life of Joan Didion
Tracy Daugherty’s biography of Joan Didion is most interesting when it comes to highlighting the complex dynamics inherent in a…
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Tyrant’s rants: imagining the final hours of Muammar Gaddafi
The central figure of The Dictator’s Last Night ends up as a cross between Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Sacha Baron Cohen’s…
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Should authors be paid to appear at literary festivals?
Philip Pullman’s resignation as a patron of Oxford Literary Festival over its lack of a fee for speakers has caused…
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