Sarah Churchwell’s Diary: My sleepless nights watching CNN, why the arts matter and fighting for truth
Last week my brain spun itself flat, like a pizza, trying to process the US election results. Now it’s just bits of dough everywhere.
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Last week my brain spun itself flat, like a pizza, trying to process the US election results. Now it’s just bits of dough everywhere.
By Sarah ChurchwellThe 1920s was a decade of swindles – and one con artist out-tricked them all.
By Sarah ChurchwellIn What Are We Doing Here?, Robinson attacks Fox News and the “dystopian media”.
By Sarah ChurchwellThe last remaining uncollected stories and a new biography show the great novelist’s grasp of history and his place…
By Sarah ChurchwellThis 1950s novel, beloved by Marilynne Robinson, has power and poignancy – but little that surprises us.
By Sarah ChurchwellWhatever you think of Clinton as a politician, it's undeniable that she has been castigated for her ambition in…
By Sarah ChurchwellCity on Fire is not bad, but it also is not great - and it might have been if it had…
By Sarah ChurchwellThe novel's use of found photos is an interesting conceit but, like the legerdemain around the book’s title, emphasising…
By Sarah ChurchwellFrom To Kill a Mockingbird to Gone With The Wind, literary mythmaking has long veiled the ugly truth of the American South.
By Sarah Churchwell