The dark shadow of Palestinian exile
Hannah Lillith Assadi’s latest novel, Paradiso 17, draws on her father’s displacement
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Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg and the death of the Hollywood dream
In the 1970s, an ingenious trio of film auteurs conquered Hollywood. But is the renaissance now over?
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Len Deighton was a revolutionary
Too many of Britain’s espionage writers were melancholy public schoolboys – Deighton was their antidote
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In defence of Ulysses
James Joyce knew that the epic is not the exclusive property of warriors and kings
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Who is Frankenstein’s Bride?
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new film follows a long history of men reanimating women
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Don’t tell the internet you’re polyamorous
Lindy West’s new memoir, Adult Braces, unleashed a storm of speculation about her throuple. Was it worth it?
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How academics ruined Shakespeare
It is time to retrieve the playwright we thought we knew – the man who asks universal questions – from…
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Asako Yuzuki’s acquired taste
Butter author Asako Yuzuki’s latest novel offers clues about what is behind the vogue for Japanese fiction
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