In search of a language of loss
Is there a correct way to mourn? When my mother died, I scoured the literature of grief for answers
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Johanna Thomas-Corr
Johanna Thomas-Corr is a contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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Lillian Fishman’s bold and searching debut novel, Acts of Service, questions the meaning of desire and introduces a major…
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We are told that the overturning of Roe vs Wade means nothing for liberal Britain, but the impulse to…
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Instead of turning literature into an arena for virtue-signalling and culture wars, let’s make room for complexity, mischief and…
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Ottessa Moshfegh and the tedium of depravity
The American author’s new novel of medieval brutality aims for the Marquis de Sade but ends up closer to…
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The joyless rise of Anna Wintour
Amy Odell’s new account of the iron-fisted Vogue editor’s ascent struggles to find the human being behind the shades.
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Men watch porn at work to shame female colleagues. I know because it happened to me
The Tory MP who viewed pornography in the House of Commons reminded me of the abusive and sexist workplace…
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Julian Barnes’s baffling new novel attempts to imagine a world without Christianity
The ghost of a more interesting narrative hovers over Elizabeth Finch, which is a novel not of ideas but…
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The marriage delusion
A new memoir describes it as “a slowly unfolding apocalypse”. Why are we so reluctant to reimagine matrimony?
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