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Motherhood: Sheila Heti and Sally Rooney
Sheila Heti’s latest novel Motherhood (Harvill Secker) confronts, in the characteristic fiction cum essay style which she pioneered in How Should a P…
7 years, 11 months ago
Olga Tokarczuk and Deborah Levy
One of the most acclaimed Polish writers of her generation, Olga Tokarczuk has won multiple prizes, most recently the Man Booker International for he…
7 years, 11 months ago
Hera Lindsay Bird and Jack Underwood
Hera Lindsay Bird’s debut poetry collection, the eponymous Hera Lindsay Bird (Penguin), became a cult bestseller in her native New Zealand, and led C…
7 years, 11 months ago
Modern Nature: Olivia Laing, Sarah Wood and Philip Hoare on Derek Jarman
In 1986, having just been diagnosed with HIV, the artist, film-maker and writer Derek Jarman decided to create a garden at his home on the bleak, bea…
7 years, 11 months ago
A New Politics from the Left: Hilary Wainwright, Melissa Benn and Alex Nunns
Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper magazine and fellow of the Transnational Institute, has been a significant figure on the left of the Labou…
7 years, 11 months ago
Ali Smith and Alan Taylor on Muriel Spark
Journalist Alan Taylor first met Muriel Spark when he interviewed her at her Tuscan home in 1990. It marked the beginning of a long and close friends…
8 years ago
Mothers: Jacqueline Rose and Devorah Baum
‘I think to be a mother for five minutes is to know that the world is unjust, and that our hearts are impure.’ In her latest book Mothers: An Essay o…
8 years ago
Radical Sacrifice: Terry Eagleton and Daniel Soar
Professor Terry Eagleton’s more than 40 books have explored, in consistently invigorating ways, the many and surprising intersections and confluences…
8 years ago
Kaveh Akbar and Richard Scott
Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar’s debut collection Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Penguin) has been attracting ecstatic reviews and endorsements. The poet …
8 years, 1 month ago
Timothy Morton: Being Ecological
Timothy Morton was at the shop to discuss his latest work, Being Ecological (Pelican), which argues for a radically different approach to global warm…
8 years, 1 month ago