Alan Bennett is right: if you consult the literature, hypocrisy is a very English tradition
Alan Bennett’s statement that the English excel at hypocrisy has upset the national press. But he’s got literature on his…
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“We are a selfish, idiot generation”: Ali Smith talks Scotland, politics, and why audiences want hard fiction
The award-winning author talks to Erica Wagner.
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Buchenwald in 1945: Richard Crossman tells the story of a holocaust survivor
In this article first published on 23 June 1945, the future Labour minister and New Statesman editor Richard Crossman recounts…
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Robert Webb on Kate Gross’s Last Fragments: a beautiful act of resistance against cancer
Kate Gross began to write after her cancer diagnosis. She left behind her husband, Billy, their five-year-old twins, and this…
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Eimear McBride announced as judge for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize
McBride joins Jon McGregor, Josh Cohen and Leo Robson to judge the annual prize for innovative fiction.
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Reign of the robots: how to live in the machine age
By using ever more machines we lose not only physical skills, but cognitive faculties.
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Michel Houellebecq: France’s literary provocateur
Michel Houellebecq’s novel imagining his country under Islamic rule featured on the cover of Charlie Hebdo. But it’s not the…
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Gangster’s paradise: A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James’s novel about an assassination attempt on Bob Marley is more true for being fiction.
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