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Why Annie Ernaux deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature

With clinical precision and revelatory intimacy, the French memoirist reinvigorated the art of life-writing.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

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Abolish true crime

Abolish true crime

Anna Leszkiewicz

How Dr No made James Bond a global brand

David Sexton

The Lost King: a sly, subversive take on the discovery of Richard III

David Sexton

Goldsmiths Prize

The Goldsmiths Prize 2022 shortlist: “creative daring” and political activism

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

We can't consign Boris Johnson to history yet

Book of the Day

We can’t consign Boris Johnson to history yet

David Gauke

The degradation of Marilyn Monroe

Tanya Gold

Reviews

Michael Winterbottom’s This England is odd and oddly repellent

Rachel Cooke

Don’t Worry Darling is a derivative let-down

Ryan Gilbey

The cutting wit of Alan Rickman

The cutting wit of Alan Rickman

Anna Leszkiewicz

Radio & Podcasts

The podcast Hoaxed packages suburban trauma as grim entertainment

Anna Leszkiewicz

Book of the Day

The bonfire of the Middle East

Emma Sky

The Walk-In should be gripping – but this is a made-by-numbers neo-Nazi drama

The Walk-In should be gripping – but this is a made-by-numbers neo-Nazi drama

Rachel Cooke

Interviews

Marcus Mumford lets go of shame

Marcus Mumford lets go of shame

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Tsitsi Dangarembga: “People started pointing fingers at me, saying ‘She’s a Western puppet!’”

Tsitsi Dangarembga: “People started pointing fingers at me, saying ‘She’s a Western puppet!’”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Anne-Marie Imafidon Q&A: "Men have often forgotten that women even exist"

Anne-Marie Imafidon Q&A: “Men have often forgotten that women even exist”

New Statesman

Michael Winterbottom on Boris Johnson, Covid-19 and his new TV series This England

Michael Winterbottom on Boris Johnson, Covid-19 and his new TV series This England

Rachel Cunliffe

The long read

Death for her was a political act: why the Queen chose Scotland

Death for her was a political act: why the Queen chose Scotland

She did nothing by accident, including her final trip to Balmoral. Was she loading the dice for the Union?

By Tanya Gold