England’s literary Catholic converts
Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene thought it was the “real” faith even when they disliked it
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Inside the mind of Luigi Mangione
A biography of the man on trial for anti-corporate murder seeks to disrupt the hero narrative that has grown around…
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In the autumn of Salman Rushdie
The author’s late style in The Eleventh Hour, his new collection of fiction, reveals a venerable writer displaced by time
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Jeanette Winterson’s thousand and one yawns
The author’s latest novel blandly reimagines the Arabian Nights tales
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Iris Murdoch’s poems were better left in the attic
A cache of newly unearthed works is not the “thrilling literary discovery” their publisher claims
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John Updike’s intimate voice
The novelist’s collected correspondence reveals a narrative of striving, sex and success
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Islam is part of European history
Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions
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Tupac Shakur: lion or loser?
The mythologised rapper was a natural shapeshifter – who no one ever truly got to know
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