An expert witness of the human condition: Ian Rankin on Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell’s Dark Corners reminds us that, at its best, crime fiction is capable of holding up a mirror to…
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Joseph Conrad and the lure of solitude
The sceptical doubt that infuses Conrad’s work – particularly his last great novel, Victory – has to do with the…
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Reclusive novelist Dominic Cooper: what do writers do when the words no longer come?
In 2013, a local paper reported on a strange script chiselled into a stone that had baffled not only historians…
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Marlon James wins the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings
A sprawling novel about an assassination attempt on Bob Marley is the first book by a Jamaican author to win…
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The Man Booker Prize 2015 shortlist reviewed
New Statesman critics’ verdicts on the six novels up for the Booker.
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Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways: a subtle study of “economic migration”
Sahota’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel goes to places we would all rather not think about.
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SRSLY #14: Interns, Housemaids and Witches
On the pop culture podcast this week, we discuss the Robert De Niro-Anne Hathaway film The Intern, the very last…
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Scar tissue: Is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara more than the sum of its parts?
Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted novel explores abuse but sheds little new light on her subject.
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