Bret Easton Ellis’s death wish
The Shards, the author’s first novel in 13 years, is an Eighties-set autofiction thriller that plays on our cultural addiction…
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The Shards, the author’s first novel in 13 years, is an Eighties-set autofiction thriller that plays on our cultural addiction…
ByA century after the writer's death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce…
ByJonathan Sperber’s The Age of Interconnection surveys the second half of the 20th century but fails to explain the ideas…
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ByRhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s memoir of adopting a kitten doubles as a study of anxiety, parenthood and purpose.
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ByOnce, stories helped us make sense of reality, argues Peter Brooks – now they have devoured it.
ByIn his new book, A Revolution Betrayed, Peter Hitchens overstates the merits of selection in state education.
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