From Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempt on his life to Sathnam Sanghera’s thoughts on imperialism via the story of the Tory party’s decline, here are the big hitters coming your way next yearFiction to look out for in 2024What are the trends in ne...
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This deceptively charming story of preteen friends seeking refuge in the French countryside is a modern-day Lord of the FliesTake two girls. Charlie, dark and scowling, is a scrappy preteen whose single mother has no idea how to deal with her extended ...
Dancing Queen, Readman’s meditation on a lost friend, won this year’s Observer/Faber graphic short story prize. Now she’s glad she gave up the day job…Read Anna Readman’s Dancing Queen hereRead runner-up Candy Gourlay’s Safe Passage hereLast November, ...
The award-winning Canadian graphic novelist’s account of a young woman whose widower husband has a dark secret about his first wife is vividly drawn and masterfully plottedIn Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 gothic novel Rebecca, a young woman marries a wealth...
Gimme sculpture: new statues of Jagger and Richards are a dud – but here are eight of Britain’s best
Bronze statues of **** Jagger and Keith Richards, unveiled last week in Dartford, are not a high pointIn Dartford, Kent, last week, a grand unveiling. The Glimmer Twins, featuring two of the town’s most famous sons, **** Jagger and Keith Richards of th...
This gorgeous graphic novel about a woman escaping the pressures of Paris for her home town, and the complications that follow, is a masterpieceCamille Jourdy’s marvellous new comic book begins with a train journey: a young woman, Juliette, is leaving ...
Elkin’s capacious survey of female artists who focused on the body might have worked better as a collection of essaysWhen Lauren Elkin began work on this book, she believed its subject was monstrosity and female creativity, her spur a now much-quoted l...
This new collection of 70s journalism exposes a sexist and wrongheaded essayist with an unwarranted reputationIn her introduction to this pocket-sized new collection of journalism by the American writer Susan Sontag, the academic Merve Emre begins with...
Forget ‘great men’ – infection and disease are the really important forces in the development of humankind, believes public health specialist Jonathan Kennedy Barts pathology museum is usually open to the public only by special appointment. But today, ...
The author raids memoirs and letters but adds little of her own in this juicy group biography of writers’ marriagesLiterary wives are a unique breed, writes Carmela Ciuraru in the introduction to her strange new book – at which point the reader picture...