Eric Huntley obituary | Black British culture

Eric Huntley obituary | Black British culture

Eric Huntley, who has died aged 96, was the co-founder with his wife, Jessica, of the radical publishing house Bogle L’Ouverture, set up in London in 1968 to showcase black writing talent.... Read more »
Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era | Fiction

Cameo by Rob Doyle review – a fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era | Fiction

Rob Doyle’s previous novel, Threshold, took the form of a blackly comic travelogue narrated by an Irish writer named Rob. In one episode before Rob becomes an author, we see him as a sexually... Read more »
John Updike’s best books – Ranked! | Culture

John Updike’s best books – Ranked! | Culture

Inspired by and drawing on three British novels (HG Wells’s The Time Machine, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Henry Green’s Concluding), Updike’s debut imagines a near future where the residents of a... Read more »
Artists plan nationwide US protests against Trump and ‘authoritarian forces’ | Culture

Artists plan nationwide US protests against Trump and ‘authoritarian forces’ | Culture

Artists and artistic organisations around the US are set to take part in a series of protests and events to speak out against Donald Trump and his administration. According to the New... Read more »
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler audiobook review – a masterclass in marital disharmony | Culture

Three Days in June by Anne Tyler audiobook review – a masterclass in marital disharmony | Culture

At the start of Three Days in June, Gail Baines, a 61-year-old teacher, has a meeting with her school head, who informs her she is about to retire. Gail assumes she is... Read more »
Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked! | Culture

Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked! | Culture

After more than 30 years, Atwood caved to pleas to write a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. Not since Harry Potter had a publication caused such a sensation: computers were hacked in... Read more »
Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert review – how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves | Society books

Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert review – how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves | Society books

In 2021, JD Vance told Fox News that senior Democrat women were just “childless cat ladies”, lacking cultural or social value compared with their married and procreating counterparts. When Taylor Swift looked... Read more »
Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture? | Autobiography and memoir

Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture? | Autobiography and memoir

Samantha Ellis yearns to eat the nabug fruit that her Iraqi-Jewish parents recall from Baghdad back gardens. Yet when she asks for it in London’s Iraqi shops, she’s met only with blank... Read more »
The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period | Music books

The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period | Music books

Jon Savage’s mammoth new book skilfully navigates, across more than 700 pages, key moments in music and entertainment history and maps their significance for the advancement and acceptance of queer culture. The... Read more »
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