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Eimear McBride’s literature of desire

The Irish author’s exhilarating fourth novel, The City Changes Its Face, proves there is nobody writing sex like her.

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By Michael Prodger, George Monaghan and Megan Kenyon

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

By Tom Holland

This story of Martha Goddard’s forensic method does more than reclaim her role in history – it gives her a…

By Sophie McBain

The Irish nationalist was caught in the fault lines between empire and nation, colonised and coloniser, public face and private…

By Paul Rouse

Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover.

By John Mullan

The novels portrayed the working woman of the Nineties as a hot mess. By laughing at her, we laughed at…

By Tanya Gold

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By Michael Prodger, Rachel Cunliffe, Zuzanna Lachendro and Barney Horner