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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The late novelist’s extraordinary talent was to take our collective history and make it new.
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The author of His Dark Materials has spoken out against “gesture politics” – but he too adds fuel to the…
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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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Marías’ masterful expression of his characters’ psychological weather, combined with Margaret Jull Costa’s gifted translation, makes for rewarding reading.
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Writers reflect on the poet’s life, work and legacy, a century after his birth.
How a bestselling debut novel about a group of murderous students became a cult classic.
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Alexander Kluge’s information epic and how the time for learning is running out.
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The novelist on Liz Truss, Salman Rushdie, and why he finally decided to write his own story into his new…
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The letters of the Northumbrian modernist reveal an idiosyncratic career and an exacting critical mind.
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The Blue Commons by Standing, Ghost Signs by Hennigan, Milk Teeth by Andrews and The Arctic by Paterson.
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At first, I didn’t see the deer – but then I saw it was looking straight at me.
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A new poem by Kevin Cahill.
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The attack on Salman Rushdie has exposed the deepening fault lines in French culture.
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Years of anti-fascist struggle shaped the author’s intense portraits of family life in Mussolini’s Italy. Now, her books are undergoing…
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The Booker-shortlisted author on race, America and his new novel, The Last White Man.
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Magic and nature help children confront their fears in the best new books for young readers.
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A new collection of autobiographical prose reveals the turbulent inner life of the celebrated poet Robert Lowell.
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The freedom of expression and imagination that the novelist has bravely championed for so long is under renewed assault.
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The novelist and former Bright Young Thing ably captured Britain in the early 20th century. Her work deserves to be…
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The writer and illustrator has died aged 88. From The Snowman to When the Wind Blows, his work was sensitive…
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