Elena Ferrante’s latest book of nonfiction offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the creative process of one of our most elusive authors. The book is comprised of four lectures:…
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Death, as James Baldwin reminds us in The Fire Next Time, “is the only fact we have”. And yet in the west, it is swathed in secrecy. “Just like in video…
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Lucy Caldwell’s new novel is set during the Belfast Blitz: four German airstrikes in April and May 1941. The first, known as the Dockside Raid, saw strategic targets hit with few…
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In her 2016 debut, Amy Liptrot recounts returning to her native Orkney to recover from alcohol addiction. The Outrun, a prizewinning Sunday Times bestseller, was lauded for its lucid self-awareness…
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In This Happy, Niamh Campbell’s widely shortlisted 2020 debut, a 30-year-old woman recalls an affair she had in her early twenties with a man in his forties. Now married to a…
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What is the value of saving someone’s life if they turn out to be “an asshole”? In his latest novel, a Highsmithian literary thriller, Antoine Wilson tracks the aftermath of a…