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This much I know | Nadya Tolokonnikova, ***** Riot
The ***** Riot co-founder, 29, on talking politics with her daughter, how prison changed her and her capitalist phaseI went through a capitalist phase because of my mother. In the 90s, when our economy collapsed, we lost everything. My mum started to d…
Robinson Crusoe at 300: why it’s time to let go of this colonial fairytale
Defoe’s book has inspired novels, Hollywood movies and games – but the shipwrecked *****-trader should never have become a role modelIn February 1719, two months before the publication of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe proposed in the Weekly Journal tha…
Erwin Olaf: photography’s Dutch master – in pictures
From nightlife-fuelled provocateur to Rembrandt-inspired portraitist, Erwin Olaf – 60 this year – continues to approach his subject with theatrical flair Continue reading…
Unknown Daphne du Maurier poems discovered behind photo frame
Poems believed to have been written by the Rebecca author in her 20s were found by auctioneers before a sale of intimate lettersA handful of youthful poems by Daphne du Maurier have been found in an archive of letters, with two previously unknown disco…
Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye is a sharp study of a very female torture
As we approach the novel’s 30th anniversary, it’s hard to think of many characters who have endured pain like Atwood’s ElaineOne of the first things you notice when embarking on the unsettling experience of reading Cat’s Eye is that its narrator, Elain…
What’s in a name? Authors on choosing names for their characters
From Margaret Atwood’s Offred to Thomas Harris’s Hannibal the cannibal, names can end up shaping characters in ways even their creators never intendedAccording to series creator Bruce Miller, the third series of The Handmaid’s Tale, soon to be on our s…
All tomorrow’s parties: Warhol’s Factory – in pictures
Sprayed with silver and decorated with tinfoil, Andy Warhol’s Factory was not only his studio, but a hangout for collaborators and muses like the Velvet Underground and Edie Sedgwick. Photojournalist Nat Finkelstein spent three years documenting it all…
7 New Books You Should Read This February
Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks from last month and next month.
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How It Feels to Publish Your Wife’s Memoir About Dying
When Julie Yip-Williams was a few months old, her parents almost had her murdered. She was born in war-torn Vietnam with blinding cataracts, and her grandmother insisted that Julie be taken to an herbalist who would feed her a poisono…
A Conversation With Marlon James and Victor LaValle
The other day, Victor LaValle, a Queens-born author who employs the form of the fairy tale as a barbed hook to lure readers into serious treatments of race, parenting, and the internet, ordered dim sum with Marlon James, a Jamaican au…