From morality clauses to sensitivity readers: inside UK publishing’s identity crisis
Is the books world in urgent need of change – or simply running scared of Twitter?
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Kate Atkinson’s Transcription is a nimble and convincing tale of espionage
The author clearly amuses herself with the sheer implausibility and theatricality of the world she describes.
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Set between Sheffield and Bangladesh, The Friendly Ones is frequently disorientating
Philip Hensher’s 12th work of fiction is a synthesis of material, traditions and styles.
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Julian Barnes’s latest novel, The Only Story, is a tale of absolute devastation
Barnes leads the unsuspecting reader into a dark tangle of addiction, violence, abuse, mental disarray and non sequitur.
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Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman is playful and unsettling
At times, the novel seems to owe as much to Dostoevsky as to the epics of the long-distant past.
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Hari Kunzru’s White Tears: Even white boys gets the blues
A story of two obsessive record collectors becomes an interrogation of authenticity and the transformative power of music.
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“Writing is everything and I am nothing”: the vanishing acts of Elena Ferrante
Frantumaglia: a Writer’s Journey is a collection of letters, interviews and pieces from 1991 to this year, and explore the writer's…
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Scar tissue: Is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara more than the sum of its parts?
Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted novel explores abuse but sheds little new light on her subject.
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The end of the affair: Rose Tremain’s The American Lover reviewed
The protagonists of Rose Tremain’s fifth collection of short stories – her first since 2005’s The Darkness of Wallis Simpson –…
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