Against the Bolaño industry
In continuing to ransack Roberto Bolaño’s sketchy drafts, his estate has reached a new, degrading low.
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Ten years of Swimming Home
A decade on, the author returns to her Booker Prize-nominated novel, and finds conflict and mortal danger among the waves.
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The best books of 2022 so far
The New Statesman’s selection of essential reading this spring
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Ali Smith, our thoroughly modern modernist
In her new novel Companion Piece, Smith turns the legacy of Joyce and Woolf into vital fiction for the 21st…
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