Tag: books
The Age of Illusions review: anti-anti-Trump but for … what, exactly?
Andrew Bacevich is right that America squandered victory in the cold war but curiously reluctant to offer ways it might atoneWinston Churchill supposedly said: “Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else.” In h…
Watch the Very ***-Forward Trailer for the Normal People TV Show
“Normal” means “looking like upscale sweater models.”
‘No chapter was longer than a music video’: Chuck Palahniuk on how he wrote Fight Club
Facing losing his tiny house that received no television or radio signal, Palahniuk could only read or write …This comes front loaded with a lot of maths. Please bear with me. My first house cost $60,000. I’d put down $5,000 in cash I’d saved, and plan…
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener review – beggars and tech billionaires
An account of life among the young and wealthy of Silicon Valley, and how it became unbearableWhen Anna Wiener first moved to San Francisco for a job at a web analytics startup, she rented a room on Airbnb and found herself captivated by the idea of li…
Life, death and Jimmy the Volvo: Gus Powell’s family photos – in pictures
The photographer talks us through Family Car Trouble, his new book documenting ‘the arrival of children, the departure of a father – and the maintenance of a difficult 1993 Volvo 940 Turbo station wagon.’Warning: this article includes a graphic image s…
150m Shades of Grey: how the decade’s runaway bestseller changed our *** lives
Fifty Shades of Grey and its sequels were by far the bestselling books of the 2010s, kickstarting an erotica and kink boom. But did it lead to lasting change?I was working as a bookseller when Fifty Shades of Grey was published and spent weeks stacking…
The Outsider review – Stephen King slashfest is like CSI on sleeping pills
It has mutilated corpses, scary hooded figures and time-travel escapades. But King’s magic is missing from this glacially slow ****** mysteryWhile film renderings of Stephen King’s work frequently result in celluloid classics or near-classics – Carrie,…
Watergate reporter Bob Woodward writing follow-up to Trump book Fear
Washington Post veteran has interviewed president twiceHow to dump Trump: Rick Wilson on Running Against the DevilThe Watergate reporter Bob Woodward is writing a follow-up to Fear, his 2018 bestseller on the Trump White House – and this time, the pres…
Race, literature, lovers … and fake *******: my chats with Elizabeth Wurtzel
A heartfelt tribute reveals some of the emails shared over six years with the author of Prozac NationPop culture loves the hot mess: a female character – real or otherwise – hurtling from one improbable drama to the next. She is gregarious and overshar…
American Oligarchs review: Trump, Kushner and the melding of money and power
Andrea Bernstein delivers the goods on the bad business which propelled two New York families to WashingtonHow to dump Trump: Rick Wilson on Running Against the DevilAmerica’s cold civil war rages, impeachment inches ahead and Donald Trump remains a fo…