Life lessons from Beijing’s courier grind
In I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan reflections on the ways work divides and controls both our lives and…
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Margaret Atwood is nobody’s handmaid
The Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts reveals a writer who, despite her success, can’t let go of criticism…
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How to fix the internet: break the oligarchy
Two new books trace the decline of the global online public square – and its replacement by a machine for…
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Cameron Crowe’s endless adolescence
In his memoir The Uncool, the rock-critic-turned-filmmaker explores his lifelong fascination with the American teen experience
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David Szalay’s Flesh wins the Booker Prize
The British-Hungarian writer is one of the more justly deserved laureates in recent years
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Why CD Rose won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
His fourth book We Live Here Now challenges the novel’s form by focusing on texture, atmosphere and resonance
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Who killed the social housing dream?
A new history of Britain’s tower blocks reveals the ways architecture and ideology have combined to ensure residents are always…
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Martin Scorsese, priest of the silver screen
In his youth, the great auteur wanted to join the Church – but he practised his faith better from the…
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