Tag: Literature

Total Results: 203


Why live in a derelict Irish cottage? Credit: Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images
06/05/2023 - 1:02am

Is anyone at home in Northern Ireland? An ambiguous identity is productive for writers

Aris Roussinos

Tuesday
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23.05

The liberal complacency of Martin Amis His exquisite style hid a squalid sense of morality

Terry Eagleton

Monday
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22.05

Martin Amis knew the horror of words Debased language is the tool of the dictator

David Patrikarakos

Tuesday
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16.05

Ingmar Bergman’s moral horror show He flayed his ego for the sake of art

Rob Doyle

Monday
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10.04

Nick Cave on Christ and the Devil Has religion become a form of rebellion?

Nick Cave

Tuesday
07.03

07.03

Margaret Atwood’s frustrating feminism Her work can't be reduced to an ideology

Kat Rosenfield

Wednesday
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01.03

The gender wars started in 1531 Debates over whether sex is a spectrum are nothing new

Andrew Doyle

Friday
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17.02

Jonathan Raban’s final message Our friendship is irreplaceable

Paul Theroux

Saturday
04.02

04.02

Bret Easton Ellis: ‘My generation wanted to be offended’ He discusses millennials, violence and Kanye West

Jacob Furedi

Friday
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03.02

Britain’s food wars Is Waitrose a cure for the Westminster class?

Aris Roussinos

Wednesday
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01.02

The books that made me Every library is autobiographical

Penelope Lively

Saturday
28.01

28.01

Maus and the repressive power of Jewish trauma Should American Jews let go of the Holocaust?

David Samuels