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'It made me really crazy': Ben Lerner on confronting male rage and family trauma
As the final book in his acclaimed trilogy is published, The Topeka School author reflects on writing as his mother and ‘pompous’ Great American Novels
Lidija Haas
04, Nov, 2019 @9:00 AM
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino review – on self-delusion
A bold and playful collection of essays from a hugely talented writer – its subjects include religion, drugs, feminism and the ‘cult of the difficult woman’
Lidija Haas
02, Aug, 2019 @6:29 AM
Nell Freudenberger: ‘Like many women I believed I didn't have the right kind of brain for science’
While writing her latest novel, the American author became obsessed with theoretical physics. She talks about sexism in science, falling in love with teachers and grief
Lidija Haas
08, Jun, 2019 @9:00 AM
Neil Gaiman: ‘Good Omens feels more apt now than it did 30 years ago’
Before Terry Pratchett died, Gaiman told his friend he would adapt their novel about an angel and a devil stopping the apocalypse. As Good Omens starts on TV, he discusses fame, politics and honouring that promise
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24, May, 2019 @8:00 AM
John Wray: ‘I don’t judge people who are passionate about political struggle, even to the point of taking up weapons'
A tale he heard in Afghanistan about an American teenager who disguised herself as a boy to fight with the Taliban inspired the novel Godsend
Lidija Haas
25, Jan, 2019 @11:59 AM
Barbara Kingsolver: ‘It feels as though we’re living through the end of the world'
The author of The Poisonwood Bible is back with an ambitious novel charting the US in breakdown. She talks about the environment, victim-blaming – and being a hillbilly
Lidija Haas
08, Oct, 2018 @5:59 AM
Sharp by Michelle Dean review – what do Dorothy Parker, Hannah Arendt and Susan Sontag have in common?
It’s always fun to read about the dozen exceptional women this book collects together but does each writer’s distinctive wit and thought get lost?
Lidija Haas
28, Jun, 2018 @8:00 AM
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison review – the language of race and racism
The author of Beloved reads that novel alongside the real-life story that inspired it, in one of a resonant set of lectures on literature and the fetishisation of skin colour
Lidija Haas
18, Oct, 2017 @6:30 AM
Hunger by Roxane Gay review – how the world treats fat people
A catalogue of horrors and public humiliations, Gay’s memoir responds to society’s condescension and disgust about her body size
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19, Jul, 2017 @6:30 AM
Jenny Offill: life after Dept. of Speculation – the underdog persona’s not going to fly any more
The books interview: The bestselling novelist on the New York rich, medication and her ‘dirty secret’
Lidija Haas
28, Feb, 2015 @12:00 PM
Wallflowers by Eliza Robertson review – an assured first collection of stories
From birds to bereavement to beauty queens, Robertson’s themes are ambitious and wide-ranging
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06, Feb, 2015 @9:01 AM
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