John Updike’s intimate voice
The novelist’s collected correspondence reveals a narrative of striving, sex and success
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Islam is part of European history
Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions
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Tupac Shakur: lion or loser?
The mythologised rapper was a natural shapeshifter – who no one ever truly got to know
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Kate Clanchy has nothing to teach us
The poet and teacher on “Anatomy of a Cancellation” and her comeback
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David Szalay: “I think of myself as a European novelist”
The Booker Prize winner on masculinity, sex and what Keir Starmer should read
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Life lessons from Beijing’s courier grind
In I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan reflects on the ways work divides and controls both our lives and…
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Margaret Atwood is nobody’s handmaid
The Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts reveals a writer who, despite her success, can’t let go of criticism…
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How to fix the internet: break the oligarchy
Two new books trace the decline of the global online public square – and its replacement by a machine for…
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