Hilary Mantel’s death is an incalculable loss to our national life and literature
The late novelist’s extraordinary talent was to take our collective history and make it new.
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Hilary Mantel, 1952-2022
The Booker Prize-winning author, who has died aged 70, reinvigorated historical fiction to become one of Britain’s best-loved novelists.
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Hilary Mantel: “I had to be in middle age to imagine what the weight of life does to you”
The Booker Prize-winning author on late fame, her mother’s death and the books she is yet to write.
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The Philip Pullman affair shows social media is where good arguments go to die
The author of His Dark Materials has spoken out against “gesture politics” – but he too adds fuel to the…
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What the Huxleys got wrong
Aldous, Julian and Thomas saw themselves as arbiters of the good life – but they fell prey to prejudice and…
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AN Wilson: the assembly-line intellectual
The writer’s exasperating new memoir offers a full dinner service of clichés and an insight into the glib fogeyism of…
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Nick Cave’s second coming
At 65, the Australian singer-songwriter is more creatively alive than ever before.
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From Maggie O’Farrell to Sayaka Murata: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring Sick Note by Gareth Millward and a biography of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen.
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