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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All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir
A biography of the tech company’s founder Alex Karp reveals the philosophy behind its troubling conquest of the world
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Anthony Bourdain reheated
A new collection of his writing tells us more than ever about the chef
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Anthony Hopkins remains an enigma
We Did OK, Kid is both a tell-all and tell-nothing memoir
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Colwill Brown: “Romanticising a place is only another way to diminish it”
The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the poetry of the South Yorkshire dialect and paradigm-shifting novels
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