New American Stories is a vibrant, disturbing collection
Ben Marcus’ celebration of the short story demands our dreams be disrupted.
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Jonathan Franzen suffers from the weight of expectation
Franzen’s prose exemplifies the 2011 Booker judges’ exalted “readability”, but his life has become a soap opera not of his…
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France’s left will never accept the revolution is over
On the question that divided historians for most of the 20th century – “Was the French Revolution a bourgeois revolution?” –…
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SRSLY #7: Paper Boys and Paper Towns
We talk the end of One Direction, the BBC podcast Who Killed Elsie Frost?, the new film of John Green’s…
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Harry Potter isn’t over, but what happens when a fandom grows up?
A visit to GeekyCon, which started out as a Harry Potter fan convention, reveals the way the generation who grew…
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The New Yorker war reporter who took to surfing
From Fiji to San Francisco, William Finnegan evokes the magic and terror of chasing waves in rapturous prose.
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Our favourite writers on the books every 16-year-old should read
Tony Little’s guide to education lists books that “every bright 16-year-old should read”. We asked some of our favourite authors…
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Rowan Williams: Violence is an unavoidable part of being human
Violence in human beings has something to do with our sense of meaning, our sense that something is at stake…
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