Why can’t we stop for death?
The Black Mirror and The Worm at the Core reveal the human obsession with, and denial of, our mortality.
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Mathias Énard is the most brazen French writer since Houellebecq
Énard’s latest novel, Street of Thieves, has ideas and charisma to burn.
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Sex and the city: the novel that listens in on New York
Linda Rosenkrantz’s Talk captures the conversations of a sex-obsessed city.
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Parenting remains primarily women’s work. Is that why it’s passed over in literature?
We need more mothers in literature, not just to make it more inclusive, but because our perception of motherhood remains…
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The NS Podcast #111: The fictions of the American South
Sarah Churchwell discusses the fiction that became an agent in American racism.
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Writing on the rude boys: returning to punk’s heyday
Roland Link’s Love in Vain: the Story of the Ruts and Ruts DC reveals the band’s eclectic roots.
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Digital dystopias: Joshua Cohen and David Shafer enter the cloud
Book of Numbers and Whisky Tango Foxtrot belong to a growing canon of tech thrillers from the US, new novels that engage with internet culture,…
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Following Farage reveals the Ukip inner circle
This is a timely and entertaining story of a man addicted to applause, not alcohol.
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