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Preti Taneja & Lola Olufemi: Aftermath
On 29 November 2019 Usman Khan murdered Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers’ Hall in London. Recently released from prison after serving a s…
3 years, 11 months ago
Celia Paul & Olivia Laing: Letters to Gwen John
Although born 20 years after Gwen John’s death, Celia Paul has always felt a strong affinity with the older artist. In Letters to Gwen John (Cape), d…
3 years, 11 months ago
Helen Thompson and Ann Pettifor: Disorder
In her latest book Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century (Oxford) Helen Thompson argues that while the earthquake that was the Covid-19 pandemic p…
3 years, 11 months ago
Pankaj Mishra and Lisa Appignanesi: Run and Hide
After twenty years novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra makes a triumphant return to fiction. Described by Amit Chaudhuri as ‘his best work yet’ and b…
3 years, 11 months ago
Ange Mlinko, Don Paterson and Edmund de Waal on Rilke
Central to this modern myth is the ‘savage creative storm’ of 2-23 February 1922, when Rilke wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus and completed the Duino Ele…
4 years ago
Fernanda Melchor and Nicole Flattery: Paradais
Fernanda Melchor first came to the attention of the English-speaking world with 'Hurricane Season', a tale of murder in a lawless Mexican village, de…
4 years ago
Tom McCarthy and Susan Philipsz on ‘Ulysses’
‘How do you write after Ulysses?’ asked the twice Booker-nominated novelist Tom McCarthy, author of C, Satin Island and most recently The Making of I…
4 years ago
Revivalism: Christopher Hitchens
Lisa Appignanesi, Benjamin Burgis, Janan Ganesh and James Wolcott on ‘A Hitch in Time’, chaired by David Runciman
Christopher Hitchens was a star writ…
4 years ago
Sheila Heti & Merve Emre: Pure Colour
With How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti merrily and unforgettably extended our notions of what a novel might or ought to contain. In Pure Colour (Ha…
4 years ago
Josh Cohen & Deborah Levy: Losers
In his long essay Losers (Peninsula) psychoanalyst and critic Josh Cohen examines, with characteristic wit and acuity, what our culture loses by unde…
4 years, 1 month ago