2+ hour, 16+ min ago  (145+ words) Next posting, Palestine. Wheeler writes that Morris "was the 20th century, and certainly he had a knack for being where history was made. Palestine in 1947, between the King David Hotel bombing and the Nakba, was just such place. There, wrote Morris,…...

2+ hour, 27+ min ago  (1671+ words) Gwendoline Riley's search for a new compulsion'New Statesman Gwendoline Riley's novels are not exactly easy to read and they were not, it would seem, easy to write. "I have to get to the point where my only two options are:…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (688+ words) There are angels in London. Their emissary, Raphael, appears to human eyes as 10,000 glowing blue particles. "It looked like a spray of peacock feathers, and then it looked like a fountain of many enf There are angels in London. Their…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (998+ words) James Meek's broken Britain'New Statesman Si monumentum requiris, circumspice: if you seek my monument, look around you. That is the inscription for visitors to the tomb of Christopher Wren at St Paul's Cathedral. It is also the epigraph to James…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (189+ words) Britain's best-known historian found new audiences for the stories of the past. Can he now get them to read novels? Launched in 2020 when Sandbrook and his co-host Tom Holland were still known as writers rather than talkers, The Rest Is…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1005+ words) The mystery of Heathcliff's race in Wuthering Heights'New Statesman Emily Bront's genius was not for self-promotion. She hid her true identity under a pseudonym and agreed to pay "50 " more than the annual salary of a governess at the time " to…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (165+ words) Nothing beats the thrills and seductions of Emily Bront's novel Seasons revolve throughout the novel, each marker of the time of year usually a description of the weather: On an afternoon in October, or the beginning of November, a fresh…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (377+ words) Kate Briggs and Francis Spufford complete the panel for this year's award for fiction "that extends the possibility of the novel. The novelist Hari Kunzru and journalist David Sexton have been announced as judges for this year's Goldsmiths Prize. The…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (325+ words) Alwyn Turner's new history reassures us that the past is not, as many imagine, any cosier or more patriotic than our contemporary world Answer: easily. But consider, next, the deteriorating performance of the industrial economy until rearmament in the 1930s; the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (481+ words) According to Nick Cave, no fewer than four production companies have previously attempted to adapt for screen his violent, transgressive 2009 novel, The Death of Bunny Munro. Each failed because no ac According to Nick Cave, no fewer than four production…...