The madness of Burton and Taylor
Roger Lewis’s book about the lives of the married actors isn’t really a biography – it’s a fever dream.
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How women were left out of the story of evolution
A radical new history argues that human society was shaped not by hunter-gatherer skills but the bodies of our female…
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From Paul Auster to Kelly and Zach Weinersmith: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Reckoning by V and Eyeliner by Zahra Hankir.
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The horrors of the Upskirt Decade
In a new book on the vicious media misogyny of the Noughties, the recent past has never felt more remote.
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Amy Arnold: “We’re unaccustomed to being pushed up against the inner life of another person”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Lori & Joe on walking, suspense and capturing consciousness in prose.
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Adam Thirlwell: “Everyone has become a kind of manic everyday literary critic”
The Goldsmiths-shortlisted author on aliens, revolutionary France and our era of misinformation.
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How John le Carré infiltrated Oxford
When the author was a spy the university was his battlefield.
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Who runs the show?
As the power in Hollywood has moved from film to TV, so has the much-mythologised alpha male auteur.
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