George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and tolerance
Virgina Woolf declared Middlemarch “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. He…
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The rise of the literary nepo baby? The children of famous novelists on following in their parents’ footsteps ⊕
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From Naomi Ishiguro to Jess Atwood Gibson, more children of high profile writers are becoming authors themselves. Parents and their literary offspring discuss the pressures of measuring up
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53 days ago
Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’ ⊕
The Canadian author on good writing advice from Martin Amis, his love for digging and getting rid of billionaires
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67 days ago
‘Enough of this me me me’: Blake Morrison on memoir in the age of oversharing ⊖
From sad-fishing on Facebook to sensational Substack revelations – today’s readers don’t have to look far for confessional writing. Is this the end of autobiography?
Every day I meet strangers who sha…
4 months ago
Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked! ○
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As the Booker prize-winning author prepares to publish his final novel at 80, we assess his finest work
Duffy is the first in a series of crime novels about a bisexual private eye that Barnes publishe…
7 months ago
Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety ⊕
From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured
Accepting a literary prize in Ohio last year, the novelist Zadie Smith descri…
12 months ago
Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism ○
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Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the war
In an appropriate spirit of cynicism and b…
13 months ago
Do we really need more male novelists? ○
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There may not be obvious successors to the likes of Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie among today’s hotshot young writers. But is a new publisher dedicated to ‘overlooked’ male voices necessary?
‘Where h…
14 months ago
The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’ – podcast ○
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Over 50 years, she has become one of the most revered writers in Australia. Is she finally going to get worldwide recognition?
By Sophie Elmhirst. Read by Nicolette Chin
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The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’ ○
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Over 50 years, she has become one of the most revered writers in Australia. Is she finally going to get worldwide recognition?
In early January, the Australian author Helen Garner decided to cut back …
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