“No good opera plot can be sensible,” admitted W. H. Auden—a man with five opera libretti to his name—“for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” It is true that... Read more »
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A novel told from the perspective of a robot girlfriend has been named winner of the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer is “a tightly focused... Read more »
Waterstones has selected six “astonishingly impressive and inspiring new voices” for its fourth debut fiction prize shortlist, including Catherine Airey, William Rayfet Hunter and Lucy Steeds. The shortlist, which also features Gurnaik... Read more »
Dutch debut novelist Yael van der Wouden has won this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, while British doctor Rachel Clarke took home the nonfiction award. Van der Wouden’s The Safekeep and Clarke’s... Read more »
“Green, at this point, is a dead fucking brand,” says Kate Morris, the brash and irreverent political organizer at the center of Stephen Markley’s The Deluge. “Green,” for Morris, is traditional environmentalism,... Read more »
What unites Jordan Peele’s Us, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, R. F. Kuang’s Yellowface, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (remade into a Hulu series), and the most recently viral Severance? We might call... Read more »
Philip Ignatius Brooke – aristocrat, playboy, countercultural icon, owner of a 1,000-acre estate in the Sussex countryside – is dead. And no one is especially sad. Certainly not his immediate family, who,... Read more »
As the novelist Yiyun Li often observes, there is no good way to state the facts of her life and yet they are inescapable: she had two sons, and both died by suicide.... Read more »