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I don’t control it or choose my translators. In French I’ve been very lucky to have Patrick Marcel.

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While Tooze brilliantly chronicles Covid-19’s impact on political thinking and our working lives, Cooper and Szreter identify the lessons we must learn from our f […]

Max Chafkin’s thorough study of the tech titan reveals a man with his eye on the main chance, rather than a visionaryThis is a book about the aphrodisiac effect o […]

Twenty contemporary writers recommend overlooked novels, essays and poetry that deserve to sit alongside the classics on our bookshelves. Introduction by Kadish […]

The New Mutants Dani Moonstar survives a disaster and wakes up to find herself in some sort of clinic for new mutants with four other teenagers and a doctor. […]

The former supreme court president’s memoir illustrates her incredible strength in triumphing over institutional sexism, but is light on personal revelationsOn t […]

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So we were talking about Muppet adaptations of classic literary works; somebody jokingly suggested Neil […]

The novelist on his latest work, an 800-page tribute to the American author Stephen Crane, and why the greatest writers are monomaniacsPaul Auster is in bed. […]

“They” here would be my friend Joe Straczynski. I’d do it happily if he could wait for it. That was how The Day of the Dead was written.

Girls In Space Be Wary by Meghan Phillips in Cheap Pop “There are 53 known humanoid species in the galaxy for you to fall in love with.” You get aboard the fla […]

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As the Folio Society publishes a new edition of Venetia, the actor and broadcaster reflects on what makes an excellent Regency romanceFrom the absolutely appalling […]

Carlo Collodi’s version of Donkey Skin, by French author Charles Perrault, will appear in a new collection of Italian fairytalesCarlo Collodi is remembered today f […]

It was endearing. And honestly, Terry put up with people coming to see me to get their Sandmans signed who weren’t quite sure who he was. It was a two way street.

It’s 12:47 am and I’m knocking off work and going to bed now. I hope you slept…

The Owl and the Nightingale, translated by Simon Armitage; Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück; Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles; Five […]

A mysterious building containing sea, clouds and wildlife is the setting for this intense and enigmatic tale read by the Hollywood actor – plus this week’s oth […]

A new study argues that a disconnect with nature has led to fewer creatures appearing in fiction. But is that really the case?A recent study in People and Nature cl […]

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In his inside account of May’s time in No 10, Barwell depicts her as a well-meaning victim of Brexit extremists and vicious politics – but lets her off the hoo […]

His fondness for pulverising detail has always been divisive; here it fatally undermines his return to the novelTo me, a passage from Karl Ove Knausgård’s 2004 no […]