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Samantha Harvey and Tessa Hadley: The Shapeless Unease
The writer Samantha Harvey has won wide acclaim and a devoted following for her novels, most recently The Western Wind, set in mediavel Somerset. In …
6 years, 3 months ago
Square Haunting: Francesca Wade & Alexandra Harris
In the period between the wars nearby Mecklenburgh Square was home to many artists, writers and radicals. In a stunning work of rediscovery Francesca…
6 years, 3 months ago
Alexander Zevin and Tariq Ali: Liberalism at Large
Alexander Zevin's Liberalism at Large (Verso) is the first critical biography of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tirele…
6 years, 3 months ago
Rachel Cusk & Chris Power: Coventry
The Observer called Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy ‘a landmark in twenty-first century English literature, the culmination of an artist’s unshakeable …
6 years, 3 months ago
Benjamin Moser and Lara Feigel on Susan Sontag
One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, Susan Sontag’s writing – on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, me…
6 years, 4 months ago
Stephen Hough and James Jolly: Rough Ideas
Long regarded as one of the world’s leading pianists, Stephen Hough is also a fine and perceptive writer, whose first novel was published last year. …
6 years, 4 months ago
Astra Taylor and David Graeber: Democracy May Not Exist, But ...
In her latest book, Astra Taylor – ‘a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity’s most profound questions yet entirely devoid of…
6 years, 4 months ago
Diane Williams and Lara Pawson: Collected Stories
Diane Williams’s short (most of them very short) stories have been captivating literary audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for the last three de…
6 years, 5 months ago
Celia Paul and Catherine Lampert: Self-Portrait
Celia Paul, born in India in 1959 and now resident in Bloomsbury is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working in Britain today. Fo…
6 years, 5 months ago
This is Not Propaganda: Peter Pomerantsev with Marina Hyde and Carl Miller
Something strange has happened to truth in the past few years. Politicians, marketeers, Twitterists and others seem to have come to the conclusion th…
6 years, 5 months ago