Fiction Fiction Ben Lerner A middle-aged writer returns to his college town to record the final interview with his 90-year-old intellectual mentor. But he’s broken his phone, and doesn’t seem able to... Read more »
Zadie SmithMargaret Busby’s Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century is the record of one woman’s lifelong passion for the literature and life of Africa and its diaspora, wherever she... Read more »
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A new prequel to George RR Martin’s blockbuster fantasy saga Game of Thrones is to be staged this summer by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. The bestselling author, whose novels have... Read more »
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Illustration: Nathalie Lees/Xxx Fiction Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieA rich exploration of female experience, Adichie’s first novel in 10 years charts the lives and loves of four women in Nigeria and... Read more »
Unlike Peter Thiel and Giorgia Meloni, I did not grow up with “The Lord of the Rings” in my life, and, reading it now with my son, it’s hard to pinpoint what... Read more »
“Read with the mind-set of a carpenter looking at trees,” Terry Pratchett once wrote, and before I set about the carpentry of writing, with the dawning freakout of each new deadline, one... Read more »
