Tag: Literature

Total Results: 204


"It should be quite a spectacle" (No Country For Old Men)
9 Jun 2023 - 1:00am

Cormac McCarthy’s irrational apocalypse In his world, mankind is nothing without bloodshed

Park MacDougald

Monday, 5 June

05.06

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

Aris Roussinos

Tuesday, 23 May

23.05

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

Terry Eagleton

Monday, 22 May

22.05

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

David Patrikarakos

Tuesday, 16 May

16.05

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

Rob Doyle

Monday, 10 April

10.04

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

Nick Cave

Tuesday, 7 March

07.03

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

Kat Rosenfield

Wednesday, 1 March

01.03

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

Andrew Doyle

Friday, 17 February

17.02

Jonathan Raban’s final message Our friendship is irreplaceable

Paul Theroux

Saturday, 4 February

04.02

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

Jacob Furedi

Friday, 3 February

03.02

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

Aris Roussinos

Wednesday, 1 February

01.02

The books that made me Every library is autobiographical

Penelope Lively