Puritan v populist: the battle of the books world
D J Taylor’s The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 walks the tightrope between two sides of a culture war…
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Dickensian is boring – and it’s Charles Dickens’s fault
Let’s face it: Dickens wrote potboilers. Why would it be interesting to watch half a dozen of them mashed together…
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I Love Dick is an assault on power – especially the oblivious kind
At the core of Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick is the question: what does it mean to be an intelligent and ambitious woman…
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The NS Podcast #130: Reshuffle, Revolt and Writing Gender
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“The women I know aren’t downtrodden”: Ayisha Malik on writing a Muslim romcom
“The one thing I did not want was her ripping off her hijab and finding herself by going drinking and…
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Blair, Barnes and big reads: the books to look out for in 2016
From political autobiography to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, our culture editor rounds up the most interesting books of…
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Magical thinking: the history of science, sorcery and the spiritual
The Book of Magic: from Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Brian Copenhaver invites us to reflect on the long history of…
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Austenmania: why 1995 was the year Jane Austen catapulted into pop culture
Twenty years on from Austen’s cinematic rise, her influence shows no sign of waning.
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