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The memoir of the American creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood is a rich story of drink, drugs and creative obsession.
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Erica Wagner is a New Statesman contributing writer.
The memoir of the American creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood is a rich story of drink, drugs and creative obsession.
By Erica WagnerJohn Walsh’s excitable account of carousing with Martin Amis and other “big beasts” of the Eighties is a paean…
By Erica WagnerA book – a hardback, bound in clear plastic – which I read, and then read again, feeling that…
By Erica WagnerMaria Dahvana Headley’s thrilling feminist translation brings the epic Anglo-Saxon poem into the present political moment.
By Erica WagnerTwo new books capture the resilient spirit of New York City – and the people who call it home.
By Erica WagnerThe life and legacy of the poet and New Statesman literary editor, who has died at the age of…
By Erica WagnerWhat is most disturbing in Blake Bailey’s biography is not Roth’s behaviour, but his biographer’s apparently unthinking alignment with…
By Erica WagnerAlexandria falls into the now well-established genre of “cli-fi” novels: dystopias that engage directly with the hell we are…
By Erica WagnerA doctor's odyssey is a reminder of the trials and wonders of solitude.
By Erica Wagner