Sally Rooney’s adventures in style
In Intermezzo, the Irish writer swaps polished wit and graphic sex for something deeper, messier and more mature.
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Keir Starmer’s union problem
The government wants to reset its relationship with organised labour – but history shows this won’t be an easy task.
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How Goethe sold his soul to Faust
A new biography by AN Wilson shows how the playwright, poet, scientist and statesman poured himself into his greatest work.
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From Dan Jones to William Boyd: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Warsaw Tales by Antonia Lloyd Jones and Emperor of the Seas by Jack Weatherford.
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Paul Gauguin’s art monster myth
Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.
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Tom Wolfe’s acid aesthetic
In his groundbreaking book, the star of New Journalism “put the reader into the eye sockets” of an LSD-fuelled 1960s…
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How Elon Musk killed Twitter
His vainglorious $44bn takeover backfired on investors, employees, users – and the world’s richest man himself.
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What Hillary Clinton knows
Despite moments of frustrating caution, her memoir Something Lost, Something Gained is revealing about Bill and exhilarating on her feminist…
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