Colwill Brown: “Romanticising a place is only another way to diminish it”
The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the poetry of the South Yorkshire dialect and paradigm-shifting novels
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CD Rose: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”
The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today
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Big tech’s futile attempt to kill death
Silicon Valley is pursuing immortality with religious zeal – but what’s the point?
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Rewilding Rory Stewart
Deeply rooted in the landscape of the Borders, The Rest Is Politics co-host is a rural romantic at heart
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Ringo Starr, the god with feet of clay
A new book about the drummer reveals a Beatle who felt like he never quite fit
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Who killed Pasolini?
Olivia Laing’s new tale of gay love imagines the murder of the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Ben Pester: “Feeling weird is essential”
The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the pleasure of generational differences and the value of messy literature
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What we demand of Epstein’s victims
Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s bleak memoir shows how the struggle for justice warps those who’ve been hurt most
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