The landscape of celebrity publishing is a dreary one, but it is lucrative.
A newly translated play and a new biography alter his image as a disinterested aesthete.
Are our stress-levels rising? Or are we just finding new ways to talk about them?
Jim Crace announced he was done with fiction five years ago, but he's still writing.
June 26, 2012
Only A Bit of Hell
Luke Harding’s new book is called Expelled: A Journalist’s Descent into the Russian Mafia State, but the title is not entirely accurate. In fact, many
April 02, 2012
Promotions
From all the fawning over Mad Men, you’d think that Andrew Cracknell would at least discuss the wider role of advertising in popular culture, which fo
November 09, 2011
Something Brewing
Just as the cocktail captured the delusions of the Jazz Age, so does the rise of the microbrew capture this curious moment in American history: in the
September 14, 2011
Unbearable
Michel Pastoureau is a scholar of the medieval bestiary, and as far as that catalogue of animals and their traits is concerned, I doubt we will have a
July 27, 2011
Waterworld
No literary trend is more damning of our collective intellect than that of the cultural history, which often amounts to little more than a lazy attemp
June 14, 2011
The Great Wall of Russia
Literature has functioned in Russian society as a clarion call to wean the people off their collective crucifixion, to remind them that to be Russian
