Tag: Literature

Total Results: 204


"It should be quite a spectacle" (No Country For Old Men)
06/09/2023 - 1:00am

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

Park MacDougald

Monday, June 5

05.06

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

Aris Roussinos

Tuesday, May 23

23.05

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

Terry Eagleton

Monday, May 22

22.05

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

David Patrikarakos

Tuesday, May 16

16.05

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

Rob Doyle

Monday, April 10

10.04

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

Nick Cave

Tuesday, March 7

07.03

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

Kat Rosenfield

Wednesday, March 1

01.03

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

Andrew Doyle

Friday, February 17

17.02

Jonathan Raban’s final message Our friendship is irreplaceable

Paul Theroux

Saturday, February 4

04.02

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

Jacob Furedi

Friday, February 3

03.02

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

Aris Roussinos

Wednesday, February 1

01.02

The books that made me Every library is autobiographical

Penelope Lively